How the people in South Africa were discriminated by apartheid?
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Discrimination against non-white or non-european peoples was a result of imperialism in the 1900's in South Africa. Segregation came alongside discrimination and Africans were forced to change their ways of life. Because the Europeans were unable to coexist with people of a different race than themselves, blacks were forced to use different public restrooms, work for different wages, along with many other ways of isolating themselves from white people.
An example of these extreme forms of segregation that took place is with the South African gold mining industry. South African gold made-up “about one-fifth of world gold output.” In order to keep labor costs low and revenue high, gold mining companies “established a discriminatory pattern of labor recruitment, *remuneration, and treatment that stamped itself deeply on social and economic relations in South America.” An African earned about one-ninth of the wage of a white miner, due to the claim that Africans were “unskilled.”
Under the British rule, racial discrimination was legal starting in 1910 after the formation of the Union of South Africa. During the ensuing years, laws limited land ownership by Africans to demarcated reserves, transformed blacks who lived in rural areas outside the African reserves into wage or tenant laborers for white farmers, and ensured white dominance in the industrial cities and rural ownerships.
A second example of the many forms of segregation was when in 1913, the Natives Land Act prohibited Africans from purchasing or leasing land outside the reserves from people who were not Africans. However, the situation for Africans under segregation became worse through the apartheid, which is a policy or system of discrimination on grounds of race, began in 1948. Though President Mandela abolished apartheid system in 1994, widespread racial discrimination still exists in South Africa today. Though there was no longer segregation or apartheid nowadays, white supremacy is still in trend.
An example of these extreme forms of segregation that took place is with the South African gold mining industry. South African gold made-up “about one-fifth of world gold output.” In order to keep labor costs low and revenue high, gold mining companies “established a discriminatory pattern of labor recruitment, *remuneration, and treatment that stamped itself deeply on social and economic relations in South America.” An African earned about one-ninth of the wage of a white miner, due to the claim that Africans were “unskilled.”
Under the British rule, racial discrimination was legal starting in 1910 after the formation of the Union of South Africa. During the ensuing years, laws limited land ownership by Africans to demarcated reserves, transformed blacks who lived in rural areas outside the African reserves into wage or tenant laborers for white farmers, and ensured white dominance in the industrial cities and rural ownerships.
A second example of the many forms of segregation was when in 1913, the Natives Land Act prohibited Africans from purchasing or leasing land outside the reserves from people who were not Africans. However, the situation for Africans under segregation became worse through the apartheid, which is a policy or system of discrimination on grounds of race, began in 1948. Though President Mandela abolished apartheid system in 1994, widespread racial discrimination still exists in South Africa today. Though there was no longer segregation or apartheid nowadays, white supremacy is still in trend.
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