Question

How did apartheid come to an end in south africa

Answer 1

After the National Party gained power in South Africa in 1948, its all-white government immediately began enforcing existing policies of racial segregation under a system of legislation that it called apartheid. Under apartheid, nonwhite South Africans (a majority of the population) would be forced to live in separate areas from whites and use separate public facilities, and contact between the two groups would be limited. Despite strong and consistent opposition to apartheid within and outside of South Africa, its laws remained in effect for the better part of 50 years. In 1991, the government of President F.W. de Klerk began to repeal most of the legislation that provided the basis for apartheid.

Answer 2

Nelson Mandela who was a South African activist helped bring an end to the Apartheid in South Africa. He was very much influenced by Gandhi to an extent that he even adopted the policy of non- violence. As the president of the African National Congress party he launched peaceful protests. When his policy of peaceful struggle failed he and his party launched the armed resistance against the White minority. In 1962, he was arrested and jailed and afterwards convicted to life imprisonment for planning to abolish the country following the Rivonia Trial. Therefore, his discussions with the South African Pres. F.W. de Klerk assisted him to end the Apartheid system of racial segregation and led a nonviolent transition to the rule of the majority.