Apartheid og Nelson Mandela

The Blacks had no influence in 1910, while Whites could be elected to parliament, and before long, several laws were passed that were to make life for the Blacks very difficult. Many Blacks felt that the time had come for them to do something, because it was so unfair for them. In 1912 they formed the South African Native National Congress, and later, it became The African National Congress (the ANC), but in 1913 the Natives Land Act was passed. The white government forbids ANC, and they started to hurt them down. The white government had decided that the Blacks could only have 7,5% of the country’s land to live on, although they were 70% of the population.

Apartheid started in 1948 when the National Party won the election and introduced the country to apartheid. The idea with apartheid was that every race has its own identity. The government wanted to make South Africa a “White” country, which means, that the different races and ethnic groups had to be separated. It wasn’t fair for the blacks, because the Whites would stay where they already living, but the black population was divided into ten tribal groups and sent to different parts of the country Men who already had jobs in the cities stayed where they were, but their wives and children were sent away, so that means, that the families were ripped apart. The homeland policy was a human catastrophe for the black people, because they could not grow enough food to themselves and there were hardly any public facilities such as hospitals, schools, clean water and so on.