Question

What were the demands of the black majority in South Africa

Answer 1

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partheid divided the people and

labelled them on the basis of their

skin colour. The native people of

South Africa are black in colour.

They made up about three-fourth

of the population and were called

‘blacks’. Besides these two groups,

there were people of mixed races

who were called ‘coloured’ and

people who migrated from India.

The white rulers treated all non-

whites as inferiors. The non-whites

did not have voting rights.

The apartheid system was

particularly oppressive for the

blacks. They were forbidden from

living in white areas. They could

work in white areas only if they had

a permit. Trains, buses, taxis,

hotels, hospitals, schools and

colleges, libraries, cinema halls,

theatres, beaches, swimming pools,public toilets, were all separate for

the whites and blacks. This was

called segregation. They could not

even visit the churches where the

whites worshipped. Blacks could not

form associations or protest against

the terrible treatment.

Since 1950, the blacks, coloured

and Indians fought against the

apartheid system. They launched

protest marches and strikes. The

African National Congress (ANC) was

the umbrella organisation that led

the struggle against the policies of

segregation. This included many

workers’ unions and the Communist

Party. Many sensitive whites also

joined the ANC to oppose apartheid

and played a leading role in this

struggle. Several countries de-

nounced apartheid as unjust and

racist. But the white racist govern-

ment continued to rule by detain-

ing, torturing and killing thousands

of black and coloured people.

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