how were the blacks discriminated by the whites in south africa
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Note that the old South Africa have Whites and non whites. The non whites were subdivided into Blacks, Indian, and coloured. I'm writing this from a Indian point of view. My grandparents were from India. I was born in the old South Africa. The Northern Natal coastal belt.
So here goes I'm just making a list in no specific order of experiences from the old South Africa.
All the different race groups lived in there own areas / townships. So we mostly interacted with our own kind.Each race group had their own schools. Some SA Indians with enough capital did built schools / Technikons for their community. Most education Facilities were government provided. The schools for the 'whites' were of a much higher standard than for the other race groups. The 'Indian' & 'Coloured' schools were medium class, While that of the 'Blacks" were very bad.
Nelson Mandela's name could not be spoken, for the fear of arrest.Most university courses, except medical and law were reserved for whites, I originally wanted to follow a path in ocean biology, I couldn't. Decided on architecture, with good matric results but unless your parents are rich the application was impossible. Verylittle or no bursary for non whites. The seats were also reserved mostly for whites. I ended up doing Architectural technology but couldn't complete my in-service training as there competition to get training which was biased towards the white students.When I was about 7 we took a family trip to St Lucia estuary. We children ran into the surf playfully. There comes 4 South Africa policemen spoke to the elders and forced us out of the surf. We were told to take the boat to the hippopotamus (one of the most dangerous African animals) invested island and play there.Most restaurants / hotels / nightclubs were closed to us, some did have separate sections.The Durban Beachfront (the Golden Mile) was divided into sections, the southern part for whites only. Non whites were either beaten or arrested or both in this part.Indians could only drive through the Orange Free State (an old SA province) even if your car broke down there you could be arrested.The government forced Christianity onto us. They provided the land, buildings for churches in Indian areas. Then paid a hansome salary to the pastor's and rigorously tried converting people. If I wanted to build a Hindu temple in and Indian area, the amount of red tape was a lot. And no sponsorship in any way from the government.This same applies to Mosques.
A non white couldn't own a beachfront flat (well a think a few blocks on North beach was allowed). The best properties, education & work was reserved for the white community.
In 1989 I was working (my 2dn job) in Durban's CBD. I got to work at about 7:30am. The pavement outside the building had a gaping hole in it, & some shattered shopfornt glass next to it. Discovered that there was a Bomb Blast at about 5am. Because of censorship we never heard of this in any local news. I did hear about it that night o BBC Radio.
So here goes I'm just making a list in no specific order of experiences from the old South Africa.
All the different race groups lived in there own areas / townships. So we mostly interacted with our own kind.Each race group had their own schools. Some SA Indians with enough capital did built schools / Technikons for their community. Most education Facilities were government provided. The schools for the 'whites' were of a much higher standard than for the other race groups. The 'Indian' & 'Coloured' schools were medium class, While that of the 'Blacks" were very bad.
Nelson Mandela's name could not be spoken, for the fear of arrest.Most university courses, except medical and law were reserved for whites, I originally wanted to follow a path in ocean biology, I couldn't. Decided on architecture, with good matric results but unless your parents are rich the application was impossible. Verylittle or no bursary for non whites. The seats were also reserved mostly for whites. I ended up doing Architectural technology but couldn't complete my in-service training as there competition to get training which was biased towards the white students.When I was about 7 we took a family trip to St Lucia estuary. We children ran into the surf playfully. There comes 4 South Africa policemen spoke to the elders and forced us out of the surf. We were told to take the boat to the hippopotamus (one of the most dangerous African animals) invested island and play there.Most restaurants / hotels / nightclubs were closed to us, some did have separate sections.The Durban Beachfront (the Golden Mile) was divided into sections, the southern part for whites only. Non whites were either beaten or arrested or both in this part.Indians could only drive through the Orange Free State (an old SA province) even if your car broke down there you could be arrested.The government forced Christianity onto us. They provided the land, buildings for churches in Indian areas. Then paid a hansome salary to the pastor's and rigorously tried converting people. If I wanted to build a Hindu temple in and Indian area, the amount of red tape was a lot. And no sponsorship in any way from the government.This same applies to Mosques.
A non white couldn't own a beachfront flat (well a think a few blocks on North beach was allowed). The best properties, education & work was reserved for the white community.
In 1989 I was working (my 2dn job) in Durban's CBD. I got to work at about 7:30am. The pavement outside the building had a gaping hole in it, & some shattered shopfornt glass next to it. Discovered that there was a Bomb Blast at about 5am. Because of censorship we never heard of this in any local news. I did hear about it that night o BBC Radio.
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The end of apartheid has brought a resurgence of research into racial identities, attitudes and behaviour in South Africa. The legacy of systematic racial ordering and discrimination under apartheid is that South Africa remains deeply racialised, in cultural and social terms, as well as deeply unequal, in terms of the distribution of income and opportunities. South Africans continue to see themselves in the racial categories of the apartheid era, in part because these categories have become the basis for post-apartheid ‘redress’, in part because they retain cultural meaning in everyday life. South Africans continue to inhabit social worlds that are largely defined by race, and many express negative views of other racial groups. There has been little racial integration in residential areas, although schools provide an important opportunity for inter-racial interaction for middle-class children. Experimental and survey research provide little evidence of racism, however. Few people complain about racial discrimination, although many report everyday experiences that might be understood as discriminatory. Racial discrimination per se seems to be of minor importance in shaping opportunities in post-apartheid South Africa. Far more important are the disadvantages of class, exacerbated by neighbourhood effects: poor schooling, a lack of footholds in the labour market, a lack of financial capital. The relationship between race and class is now very much weaker than in the past. Overall, race remains very important in cultural and social terms, but no longer structures economic advantage and disadvantage.
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The end of apartheid has brought a resurgence of research into racial identities, attitudes and behaviour in South Africa. The legacy of systematic racial ordering and discrimination under apartheid is that South Africa remains deeply racialised, in cultural and social terms, as well as deeply unequal, in terms of the distribution of income and opportunities. South Africans continue to see themselves in the racial categories of the apartheid era, in part because these categories have become the basis for post-apartheid ‘redress’, in part because they retain cultural meaning in everyday life. South Africans continue to inhabit social worlds that are largely defined by race, and many express negative views of other racial groups. There has been little racial integration in residential areas, although schools provide an important opportunity for inter-racial interaction for middle-class children. Experimental and survey research provide little evidence of racism, however. Few people complain about racial discrimination, although many report everyday experiences that might be understood as discriminatory. Racial discrimination per se seems to be of minor importance in shaping opportunities in post-apartheid South Africa. Far more important are the disadvantages of class, exacerbated by neighbourhood effects: poor schooling, a lack of footholds in the labour market, a lack of financial capital. The relationship between race and class is now very much weaker than in the past. Overall, race remains very important in cultural and social terms, but no longer structures economic advantage and disadvantage.
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