Apartheid in South Africa

In South Africa was there from 1948-1994 apartheid. That’s mean, there was separation between races. White people had a much better life than the black people. Colored and Asians sat on the political and economic power. Only after many years of violent opposition to the apartheid regime was the racist system abolished, and the resistance movement's best-known leader, Nelson Mandela, was the country's new President. But even if South Africa is a democratic state, there are still many conflicts between black and white, and the reconciliation process is not yet complete. In addition, the blacks continue to far worse conditions than the white, although the two populations have /the same formal rights.

Apartheid is a racist ideology. It is based on the fact that it is necessary and useful to separate the different breeds, and to the white race should have power and leads the society. This ideology was developed in South Africa for hundreds of years ago, but was first formulated as a single policy under this name in 1948 by the Nationalist Party in South Africa.

Nelson Mandela, the former president of the Republic of South Africa, spent more than 40 years, 27 of them in prison and he came out in 1990, as a central figure in the struggle against South Africa’s brutal and restrictive racial regime in apartheid. In 1994, shortly after the fall of apartheid, Mandela was elected President of South Africa in a multiracial, democratic election, making him the country’s first black president.