The apartheid regime, the white created in South Africa was one of the hardest and the most inhuman societies the world has ever known. Illustrate
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The whole point of apartheid was to keep races segregated by force of law. Of course, the proponents of apartheid tried to dress it up as “separate development” and justify it as morally and biblically grounded.
The truth was that it aimed simply to keep black South Africans away from having any economic power over white South Africans, especially along the major economic routes from Beit Bridge (on the Zimbabwe — then Rhodesia — border) down to Cape Town through Pretoria and Johannesburg and Bloemfontein, and from Johannesburg to Durban and Bloemfontein to Port Elizabeth.
The only curious anomaly was the division of the so-called Xhosaland into Ciskei (“this side” of the Kei River) and Transkei (“other side” of the Kei River), in order to open a corridor from Bloemfontein to East London (the so-called Border corridor) between the Xhosa tribes of the Thembus (Mandela’s tribe) and the Rharhabes. This anomaly made nonsense of the apartheid claim of ethnic based separate development, because both sides of the Kei River were Xhosa, which should not have been divided.
In the erstwhile province of Natal, the Zulu homeland (KwaZulu) ended up as a patchwork of blobs separated by big sugar and other farms which remained in “white” Natal, which made even more nonsense of the lofty claims of the apartheid fathers.
Almost all the wealth of the country — mineral, agricultural and industrial — was concentrated in and along the “white” corridors or “white” areas, which effectively meant that the black tribal homelands (known as Bantustans) became little more than overcrowded reservoirs of cheap migrant labour, controlled through an iniquitous system of “passes” (dompas).
Effectively the apartheid laws were used to create different socio-economic classes based on race and led to almost ridiculous absurdities on how to legally define “black”, “white”, “coloured” (mixed race), “Asian” (Indian — Japanese were considered “white”) etc. Each year large numbers of people were “reclassified” from one race to another — including people in the same families. It was particularly problematic for the core base of apartheid voters — “white” Afrikaaners. Historically, there was quite a bit of cross-race breeding between early Dutch Settler men (who became known as the Boers) and indigenous women (particularly the Khoisan in the Cape), which kept manifesting itself a few generations down the line with distinctly “black” looking children in “white” families (touched by the tar brush).
For example, one test (I kid you not) to determine racial classification was to push a pencil into a child’s hair. If the pencil fell out, the child was “white”. If it stuck, the child was “coloured”. Bizarre doesn’t begin to cover it.
Of course, to enforce such a patently unfair and unjust system was also difficult because the white apartheid government simply didn’t have the manpower to police it all — so instead of having more police, the police were given far more power, such as detention without trial, arbitrarily banishing dissidents to remote corners of the country — or as was revealed later, simply exterminating troublesome “terrorists” without bothering about any legal process.
Was apartheid bad? Yes, it was morally and legally indefensible, which was why it failed and why in the end white South Africans, who realised it, voted for change.
It's bad because people are separated by race groups. The law promotes bias, discrimination and racial hatred.
The philosophy is embraced by right wing Neo-Nazi groups and we all know how messed up those lunatics are.
The law also leaves a nation with problems like unequal wealth, large scale poverty, housing issues etc. The list goes on for days. There are no pro's to the law.
Apartheid means separateness. In a South African context, it refers to the segregation of the different race groups living here. Initially it was not a bad thing, in fact, many of the leaders of the different groups of the time agreed that it was the best way to live due to a weariness and mistrust of each other which lead to constant conflict and, in many cases, violence. Today though, since we still live separately, I'd say it is a pretty bad thing. Without interaction between the race groups there is a lot of ignorance and often a complete lack of understanding between memebers of different races which leads to constant and ever rising social and racial tensions.
If you're referring to the other side of Apartheid, i.e a system of oppression and dehumanisation of non-white people, I think it's quite self explanatory why that is "bad".
South Africa was bad because it denied non-white people the same rights as white people. Meaning they could not own land. Which in turn means you can’t raise capital for your business. Etc. Etc. You could not live wherever you wanted and you could not apply for any job you wanted. Well I suppose you could try but that would be pointless.
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