A beach, in apartheid South Africa, 1982. Blacks were only allowed on the left side of the boundary

Apartheid, which means "separateness" or "apart-ness" in Afrikaans, was a system of racial segregation that operated in South Africa from 1948 to 1990. Under apartheid, the races were separated and black people were denied voting rights within so-called 'white' South Africa. Under the policy of apartheid (sometimes also called "Christian-Nationalism") black people were only given the vote in their separate black homelands (even though many of these people did not actually live in these homelands). Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. ... It has been suggested that Apartheid outside South Africa be merged into this article or section. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the year. ...

Creation of apartheid

Background

For a discussion of the period of history leading up to apartheid, see History of South Africa.

The first recorded use of the word "apartheid" (International Phonetic Alphabet [əˈpɑː(r)teɪt] or [-taɪt] in English and [aˈpartheid] in Afrikaans) was in 1917 during a speech by Jan Smuts, who became Prime Minister of South Africa in 1919. Some claim apartheid was simply an extension of the segregationist policies of previous white governments in South Africa. Examples include the 1913 Land Act and the various workplace "colour bars". These laws flowed from the peace treaty signed between the Boer republics and the British Empire at the end of the second Anglo-Boer war. However, in reality apartheid was more about political separation, rather than segregation. During the Second World War, Jan Smuts' United Party government began to move away from the rigid enforcement of segregationist laws. This culminated in the 1948 report of the Fagan Commission, which was set up by the Smuts government. The report recommended that segregation in the cities be gradually ended, thus also ending the migrant labour system whereby the permanent home of Black South Africans was in distant rural "reserves". The history of South Africa encompasses over three million years. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Jan Smuts Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM (May 24, 1870 – September 11, 1950) was a prominent South African statesman and general. ... Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister A prime minister may be either: chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article needs to be wikified. ...

In response to the Fagan Commission, the National Party convened its own commission known as the Sauer Commission. The findings of this commission codified the views of the National Party which argued against the old-style United Party policies of "white supremacy" and "segregation". The National Party argued that it was no longer viable to impose white supremacy (or "horizontal development") -- a system in which whites ruled over blacks and economically exploited blacks, while simultaneously segregating themselves from blacks. Instead the National Party proposed a system of complete partition in terms of which racial groups would be completely separated from one another in a system of "vertical development". To this system they gave the name apartheid. In 1955 the Tomlinson Commission devised a plan for giving black people their own separate states, and political independence from 'white' South Africa. This Tomlinson plan became the template for so-called "grand-apartheid". The National Party (Afrikaans: Nasionale Party) (with its members sometimes known as Nationalists or Nats) was the governing party of South Africa from 1948 until 1994, and was disbanded in 2005. ... The Sauer Commission (South Africa), created in 1948, was a response to the Fagan Commission. ...

Legal system created

In the run-up to the 1948 elections, the NP campaigned on its policy of apartheid. The NP was voted in, in coalition with the Afrikaner Party (AP), under Protestant cleric Daniel François Malan's leadership. The National Party won the national election of 1948, narrowly defeating Smuts' United Party. It immediately began implementing apartheid --legislation was passed prohibiting mixed marriages, making interracial sex illegal, classifying every individual by race, and establishing a classification board to rule in questionable cases. The Group Areas Act of 1950 became the heart of the apartheid system of attempting to geographically separate the racial groups. The Separate Amenities Act created, among other things, separate beaches, buses, hospitals, schools, and universities. The existing pass laws were further strengthened: Blacks and Coloureds were compelled to carry identity documents. These identity documents became a sort of passport by which migration to so-called 'white South Africa could be enforced. Blacks were prohibited from living in (or even visiting) 'white' towns without specific permission. 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... ... Miscegenation describes people of different human races producing offspring; the use of this term is invariably restricted to those who believe that the category race is meaningful when applied to the human species. ... Look up Sex in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Sex, in the scope of this article and category, refers to the male and female duality of biology and reproduction. ... The Group Areas Act of 1950 was an act of parliament created under the apartheid government of South Africa that assigned races to different residential and business sections in urban areas. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 90 mile beach Australia A beach or strand is a geological formation consisting of loose rock particles such as sand, shingle, cobble, or even shell along the shoreline of a body of water. ... TheBus, established by Mayor Frank Fasi, is Honolulus only public transit system. ... A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ... American high school students in a school A school is most commonly a place designated for learning. ... // History Because of the above definition, the oldest universities in the world were all European, as the awarding of academic degrees was not a custom of older institutions of learning in Asia and Africa. ...

J.G. Strijdom, who succeeded Malan as Prime Minister, moved to strip coloureds and blacks of what few voting rights they had. The previous government had first introduced the Separate Representation of Voters Bill in parliament in 1951. However, its validity was challenged by a group of four voters^[1], who were supported by the United Party. The Cape Supreme Court upheld the act, but the Appeal Court upheld the appeal and found the act to be invalid. This was because a two-thirds majority in a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament was needed in order to change the entrenched clauses of the Constitution. The government then introduced the High Court of Parliament Bill, which gave parliament the power to overrule decisions of the court. This too was declared invalid by both the Cape Supreme Court and the Appeal Court. In 1955 the Strijdom government increased the number of judges in the Appeal Court from five to eleven, and appointed pro-Nationalist judges to fill the new places. In the same year they introduced the Senate Act, which increased the senate from 49 seats to 89. Adjustments were made such that the NP controlled 77 of these seats. Finally, in a joint sitting of parliament, the Separate Representation of Voters act was passed in 1956, which removed coloureds from the common voters' roll in the Cape, and established a separate voters' roll for them. Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom was Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. ... The Parliament of South Africa, has undergone many transformations, as a result of the countrys tumultuous history. ... An entrenched clause of a constitution is a provision which makes certain amendments either more difficult than others or impossible. ...

The principal apartheid laws were as follows:

• The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949)
• Amendment to The Immorality Act (1950)
  • This law made it a criminal offence for a white person to have any sexual relations with a person of a different race.
• The Population Registration Act (1950)
  • This law required all citizens to register as black, white or coloured.
• The Suppression of Communism Act (1950)
  • This law banned any party the government chose to label as "communist".
• The Group Areas Act (27 April 1950)
  • This law partitioned the country into different areas, with different areas being allocated to different racial groups. This law represented the very heart of apartheid because it was the basis upon which political and social separation was to be constructed.
• Bantu Authorities Act(1951)
  • The law create separate government structures for black people.
• Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act (1951)
  • This law allowed the government to demolish black shackland slums.
• Native Building Workers Act and Native Services Levy (1951)
  • This law forced white employers to pay for the construction of proper housing for black workers recognized as legally resident in 'white' cities.
• The Reservation of Separate Amenities Act (1953)
  • This law prohibited people of different races from using the same public amenities, such as drinking fountains, restrooms, and so on.
• The Bantu Education Act (1953)
  • This law brought all black schooling under government control, effectively ending mission-run schools.
• Bantu Urban Areas Act (1954)
  • This law curtailed black migration to the cities.
• The Mines and Work Act (1956)
  • This law formalised racial discrimination in employment.
• The Promotion of Black Self-Government Act (1958)
  • This law set up separate territorial governments in the "homelands" designated for black people. Black people were given the vote in these homelands. The aim was that these "homelands" would eventually become independent of South Africa. In practice, the South African government exercised a strong influence over these separate states even after some of them became 'independent'.
• Bantu Investment Corporation Act (1959)
  • This law set up a mechanism to transfer capital to the homelands in order to create jobs there.
• The Extension of University Education Act (1959)
  • This law created separate universities for blacks, coloureds and Indians.
• Physical Planning and Utilization of Resources Act (1967)
  • This law allowed the government to stop industrial development in 'white' cites and re-direct such development to homeland border areas. The aim was speed up the relocation of blacks to the homelands by relocating jobs to homeland areas.
• Black Homeland Citizenship Act (1970)
  • This law changed the status of the inhabitants of the 'homelands' so that they were no longer citizens of South Africa. The aim was to ensure whites became the demographic majority within 'white' South Africa.
• The Afrikaans Medium Decree (1974) required the use of Afrikaans and English on a fifty-fifty basis in high schools outside the homelands.

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The apartheid system

Apartheid in South Africa from day to day

Apartheid was implemented by the law. The following restrictions were not only social but were strictly enforced by law:

• Non-whites were not allowed to run businesses or professional practices in those areas designated as 'white South Africa' without a permit. They were supposed to move to the black homelands and set up businesses and practices there.
• Transport and civil facilities were segregated.
• Blacks were excluded from living or working in white areas, unless they had a pass. Only blacks with "Section 10" rights (those who had migrated to the cities before World War II) were excluded from this provision. Whites required passes in black areas.
  • A pass was only issued to a black person with approved work. Spouses and children had to be left behind in non-white areas. Many white households employed blacks as domestic workers, who were allowed to live on the premises - often in small rooms external to the family home.
  • A pass was issued for one magisterial district confining the holder to that area only.
  • Being without a valid pass made a person subject to immediate arrest and summary trial, often followed by "deportation" to the person's "homeland". Police vans roamed the "white area" to round up the "illegal" blacks.

The interior of a black man's pass book.

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In the 1970s each black child's education cost the state only a tenth of each white child's. Higher education was provided in separate universities and colleges after 1959. Higher education is education provided by universities and other institutions that award academic degrees, such as community colleges, and liberal arts colleges. ...

Trains and buses were segregated. Black buses stopped at black bus stops and white buses at white ones.

Public beaches were racially segregated, with the best ones reserved for whites^[2]. Public swimming pools and libraries were racially segregated. There were few black pools or libraries.

Sex and marriage between the races was prohibited.

Cinemas in white areas were not allowed to admit blacks. Most restaurants and hotels in white areas were not allowed to admit blacks.

Although trade unions for black and "Coloured" (mixed race) workers had existed since the early 20th century, it was not until the 1980s reforms that trade unions for black workers were recognised by the government. The minimum yearly taxable income for blacks was 360 rand (30 rand a month), while the white threshold was much higher, at 750 rand (62.5 rand per month). A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers... In the South African and Namibian context, the term Coloured (also known as Bruinmense, Kleurlinge or Bruine Afrikaners) refers to a rather heterogenous group of people of mixed Khoisan and white European descent with some degree of Malay, [[Malagasy, Black (Bantu) and South Indian ancestry (especially in the Western Cape... The RAND Corporation is an American think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the U.S. military. ...

Apartheid pervaded South African culture, as well as the law. The perception of non-white South Africans as second-class citizens was reinforced in many media, and the lack of opportunities for the races to mix in a social setting entrenched social distance between people.

The "homeland" system

A rural area in Ciskei, one of the apartheid-era "homelands"

Apartheid ideologues argued that that once apartheid had been implemented, blacks would no longer be citizens of South Africa; rather, they would become citizens of the independent "homelands". In terms of this model, blacks became (foreign) "guest laborers" who merely worked in South Africa as the holders of temporary work permits. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1014x1234, 329 KB) Source [1] Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1014x1234, 329 KB) Source [1] Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1123x818, 364 KB) picture of rural Ciskei /my own photo /GFDL File links The following pages link to this file: Ciskei History of South Africa in the apartheid era ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1123x818, 364 KB) picture of rural Ciskei /my own photo /GFDL File links The following pages link to this file: Ciskei History of South Africa in the apartheid era ... Ciskei Flag of Ciskei Ciskei was a Bantustan in the south east of South Africa. ... A homeland is the concept of the territory to which one belongs; usually, the country in which a particular nationality was born. ... Map of the black homelands in South Africa as of 1986 Bantustan refers to any of the territories designated as tribal homelands for black South Africans and Namibians during the apartheid era. ...

The South African government attempted to divide South Africa into a number of separate states. Some eighty-seven percent of the land was reserved for whites and coloureds, and Indians. About thirteen percent of the land was divided into ten "homelands" for Blacks (60% of the population) which were given "independence". Once the homelands were granted "independence", those who were designated as belonging to such a homeland had their South African citizenship cancelled, and replaced with homeland citizenship. These people would now have passports instead of passbooks. Those remaining part of the "autonomous" homelands also had their South African citizenship circumscribed, and remained less than South African^[3]. The South African government attempted to draw an equivalence between their view of black "citizens" of the "homelands" and the European Union and the United States view of illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe and Latin America, respectively. Map of the black homelands in South Africa as of 1986 Bantustan refers to any of the territories designated as tribal homelands for black South Africans and Namibians during the apartheid era. ... Illegal immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently, in violation of the law or without documents permitting an immigrant to settle in that country. ... Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current national boundaries: Russia (dark orange), other countries of the former USSR (medium orange) and other former communist regimes (light orange). ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ...

Where South Africa differed from other countries is that while other countries were dismantling discriminatory legislation and were becoming more open on issues of race, South Africa was constructing a labyrinth of racial legislation. That white South Africans considered the implementation of apartheid necessary was motivated by demographics; as a minority that was shrinking as a percentage of the total population, there was widespread unease at the thought of being swamped by the black majority, and of losing their identity through intermarriage if that were permitted. Demography is the study of human population dynamics. ...

Forced Removals

During the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, the government implemented a policy of 'resettlement', to force people to move to their designated 'group areas'. Some argue that over three and a half million people were forced to resettle during this period. The victims of these removals included:

• Labour tenants on white-owned farms
• The inhabitants of the so-called 'black spots', areas of African-owned land surrounded by white farms
• The families of workers living in townships close to the homelands
• 'Surplus people' from urban areas, including thousands of people from the Western Cape (which was declared a 'Coloured Labour Preference Area') who were moved to the Transkei and Ciskei homelands.

The most well-publicised forced removals of the 1950s occurred in Johannesburg, where 60 000 people were moved to the new township of Soweto (an acronym for South Western Township). The poverty-stricken but beautiful Transkei — which roughly means the area beyond the Kei River — is situated in what is now part of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, bordered by the Umtavuma River in the north and the Great Kei River in the south, while the Indian Ocean... Ciskei Flag of Ciskei Ciskei was a Bantustan in the south east of South Africa. ... City motto: Unity in Development Province Gauteng Mayor Amos Masondo Area  - % water 1,644 km² 0. ... Johannesburg, including Soweto, from the International Space Station Soweto is an urban area in Johannesburg, in Gauteng province South Africa whose northern boundary begins about 15km south-west of central Johannesburg. ...

Until 1955, Sophiatown had been one of the few urban areas where blacks were allowed to own land, and was slowly developing into an entirely multiracial settlement. As industry in Johannesburg grew, Sophiatown became the home of a rapidly expanding black workforce, as it was convenient and close to town. It could also boast the only swimming pool for African children in Johannesburg^[4]. It was, however, one of the oldest black settlements in Johannesburg, and held an almost symbolic importance for the fifty thousand blacks it contained, both in terms of its sheer vibrance and its unique culture. Despite a vigorous ANC protest campaign and worldwide publicity, the removal of Sophiatown begun on 9 February 1955 under the Western Areas Removal Scheme. In the early hours, heavily armed police entered Sophiatown to force residents out of their homes and load their belongings onto government trucks. The residents were taken to a large tract of land, thirteen miles from the city centre, known as Meadowlands (now part of Soweto), that the government had purchased in 1953. Sophiatown was destroyed by bulldozers, and a new white suburb named Triomf (Triumph) was built in its place. This pattern of forced removal and destruction was to repeat itself over the next few years, and was not limited to people of African descent. Forced removals from areas like Cato Manor (Mkhumbane) in Durban, and District Six in Cape Town, where 55 000 coloured and Indian people were forced to move to new townships on the Cape Flats, were carried out under the Group Areas Act of 1950. Ultimately, nearly 600 000 coloured, Indian and Chinese people, and a further 40 000 white people, were moved in terms of the Group Areas Act. Sophiatown was a lively, mostly-black suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. ... Central area of Durban Durban is a city in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. ... District Six is the name of a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, best known for the forced removal of its mainly coloured inhabitants during the 1970s. ... City motto: Spes Bona (Latin: Good Hope) Province Western Cape Mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo Area  - % water 1,644 km² 0. ... The Group Areas Act of 1950 was an act of parliament created under the apartheid government of South Africa that assigned races to different residential and business sections in urban areas. ...

Black, White, Indian, and "coloured"

A sign emblematic of the tense relations of the era.

Main article: Coloured

The population was classified into four groups: black, white, Indian, and "coloured". (The terms were legally supposed to be capitalised.) The coloured group included people of mixed Bantu, Khoisan, and European descent (with some Malay or Indian ancestry, especially in the Western Cape) together with some racially "pure" Khoisans. The Apartheid bureaucracy devised complex (and often arbitrary) criteria at the time that the Population Registration Act was implemented to determine who was coloured. Minor officials would administer tests to determine if someone should be categorised coloured or black, or coloured or white. Different members of the same family found themselves in different race groups. Further tests determined membership of the various sub-racial groups of the coloureds. Many coloureds do not like the term coloured, but it continues to be used in the post-apartheid era. The expressions 'so-called coloured' (Afrikaans sogenaamde Kleurlinge) and 'brown people' (bruin mense) have acquired a wide usage in recent years. white minority rule. ... In the South African and Namibian context, the term Coloured (also known as Bruinmense, Kleurlinge or Bruine Afrikaners) refers to a rather heterogenous group of people of mixed Khoisan and white European descent with some degree of Malay, [[Malagasy, Black (Bantu) and South Indian ancestry (especially in the Western Cape... In the South African and Namibian context, the term Coloured (also known as Bruinmense, Kleurlinge or Bruine Afrikaners) refers to a rather heterogenous group of people of mixed Khoisan and white European descent with some degree of Malay, [[Malagasy, Black (Bantu) and South Indian ancestry (especially in the Western Cape... Map showing the approximate distribution of Bantu (dull yellow) vs. ... Khoisan is the name for two major ethnic groups of southern Africa. ... Malays (Dutch, Malayo, ultimately from Malay: Melayu) are a diverse group of people living in the Malay archipelago and Malay peninsula in South East Asia. ... The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ...

Discriminated against by apartheid, coloureds were as a matter of state policy forced to live in separate townships — in some cases leaving homes their families had occupied for generations — and received an inferior education, though better than that provided to black South Africans. They played an important role in the struggle against apartheid: for example the African Political Organisation established in 1902 had an exclusively coloured membership. In South Africa, the term township usually refers to the (often underdeveloped) urban residential areas that, under Apartheid, were reserved for non-whites (Africans, Coloureds and Indians) who lived near or worked in areas that were designated white-only. Soweto (actually a group of townships) and Alexandra are two of... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

During most of the era of legally formalised apartheid, from about 1950 to 1983, voting rights were essentially denied to coloureds in the same way that they were denied to blacks (see Coloured). In 1983, the Constitution was reformed to allow the coloured and Asian minorities participation in separate Houses in a tricameral Parliament, a development which enjoyed limited support. The theory was that the coloured minority could be granted voting rights, but the black majority were to become citizens of independent homelands. These separate arrangements continued until the abolition of apartheid. In the South African and Namibian context, the term Coloured (also known as Bruinmense, Kleurlinge or Bruine Afrikaners) refers to a rather heterogenous group of people of mixed Khoisan and white European descent with some degree of Malay, [[Malagasy, Black (Bantu) and South Indian ancestry (especially in the Western Cape... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Asians in South Africa constitute two per cent of South Africas population, and most are of Indian origin, although there is also a small Chinese community. ... Tricameralism is the practice of having three legislative or parliamentary chambers. ... The Parliament of South Africa, has undergone many transformations, as a result of the countrys tumultuous history. ...

Apartheid in international law

South African apartheid was condemned internationally as unjust and racist. In 1973 the General Assembly of the United Nations agreed on the text of the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. The immediate intention of the Convention was to provide a formal legal framework within which member states could apply sanctions to press the South African government to change its policies. However, the Convention was phrased in general terms, with the express intention of prohibiting any other state from adopting analogous policies. The Convention came into force in 1976. 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... United Nations General Assembly The United Nations General Assembly is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Article II of the Convention defines apartheid as follows:

For the purpose of the present Convention, the term "the crime of apartheid", which shall include similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination as practised in southern Africa, shall apply to the following inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them:

(a) Denial to a member or members of a racial group or groups of the right to life and liberty of person

(i) By murder of members of a racial group or groups;

(ii) By the infliction upon the members of a racial group or groups of serious bodily or mental harm, by the infringement of their freedom or dignity, or by subjecting them to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;

(iii) By arbitrary arrest and illegal imprisonment of the members of a racial group or groups;

(b) Deliberate imposition on a racial group or groups of living conditions calculated to cause its or their physical destruction in whole or in part;

(c) Any legislative measures and other measures calculated to prevent a racial group or groups from participation in the political, social, economic and cultural life of the country and the deliberate creation of conditions preventing the full development of such a group or groups, in particular by denying to members of a racial group or groups basic human rights and freedoms, including the right to work, the right to form recognised trade unions, the right to education, the right to leave and to return to their country, the right to a nationality, the right to freedom of movement and residence, the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association;

(d) Any measures including legislative measures, designed to divide the population along racial lines by the creation of separate reserves and ghettos for the members of a racial group or groups, the prohibition of mixed marriages among members of various racial groups, the expropriation of landed property belonging to a racial group or groups or to members thereof;

(e) Exploitation of the labour of the members of a racial group or groups, in particular by submitting them to forced labour;

(f) Persecution of organisations and persons, by depriving them of fundamental rights and freedoms, because they oppose apartheid.

The crime was also defined in the formation of the International Criminal Court: The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established in 2002 as a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, as defined by several international agreements, most prominently the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. ...

"The crime of apartheid" means inhumane acts of a character similar to those referred to in paragraph 1, committed in the context of an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime^[5]

Resistance

The ANC and the Pan African Congress

These developments pushed the hitherto relatively conservative ANC into action. In 1949, they developed an agenda that for the first time advocated open resistance in the form of strikes, acts of public disobedience, and protest marches. These continued throughout the 1950s and resulted in occasional violent clashes. In June 1955, at a congress held near Kliptown, near Johannesburg, a number of organizations, including the Indian Congress and the ANC, adopted a Freedom Charter. This articulated a vision of a non-racial democratic state and is still central to the ANC's vision of a new South Africa. March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... // Events and trends This map shows two essential global spheres during the Cold War in 1959. ... June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with a length of 30 days The month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kliptown, a suburb of the former black township of Soweto in Gauteng, South Africa, located about 17km south-west of Johannesburg. ... The Freedom Charter was adopted at the Congress of the People in Kliptown, South Africa on 26 June 1955 by the African National Congress and its allies. ...

The Sharpeville Massacre

South African police officers standing over people killed in the Sharpeville Massacre

In 1959, a group of disenchanted ANC members, seeking to sever all ties with white government, broke away to form the more militant Pan African Congress. First on the PAC's agenda was a series of nationwide demonstrations against the hated pass laws. On 21 March 1960, black people congregated in Sharpeville, a township near Vereeniging, to demonstrate against the requirement for blacks to carry identity cards (under the Pass Law). Estimates of the size of the crowd vary wildly, from as low as 300 to as high as 20,000.^[6] The crowd converged on the local police station, singing and offering themselves up for arrest for not carrying their pass books. A group of about 300 police opened fire on the demonstrators, killing 69 and injuring 186. All the victims were black, and most of them had been shot in the back. The crowd was unarmed; many witnesses stated that the crowd was not violent, but Colonel J. Pienaar, the senior police officer in charge on the day, said, "Hordes of natives surrounded the police station. My car was struck with a stone. If they do these things they must learn their lesson the hard way." The event became known as the Sharpeville Massacre. In its aftermath the government banned the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). South African police officers standing over people killed in the Sharpeville massacre. ... Police and the Sharpeville Massacre File links The following pages link to this file: History of South Africa User:PZFUN/test Categories: Non-commercial use only images ... Police and the Sharpeville Massacre File links The following pages link to this file: History of South Africa User:PZFUN/test Categories: Non-commercial use only images ... A police officer is a person who works for the police force. ... South African police officers standing over people killed in the Sharpeville massacre. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The word militant can refer to any individual engaged in warfare, a fight, combat, or generally serving as a soldier. ... The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) (later the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania), was a South African liberation movement, that is now a minor political party. ... The British Colonial government in South Africa introduced the Pass Laws (1923) to regulate movement of Africans into urban areas. ... March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Vereeniging is a city in Gauteng province, South Africa, with a population of more than 350,000. ... The Pass Laws Act of 1952 made it compulsory for all black South Africans over the age of 16 to carry a pass book, at all times. ... 1923 - The Native Urban Areas Act is passed by British Governors in South Africa - which deemed the urban areas white & forced all African men in cities & towns to carry permits called passes at all times. ... South African police officers standing over people killed in the Sharpeville massacre. ... The African National Congress (ANC) is a centre-left political party, and has been South Africas governing party (in a coalition) since the establishment of majority rule in May 1994. ... The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) (later the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania), was a South African liberation movement, that is now a minor political party. ...

The event led to a great change in the ANC tactics, switching from non-violent means to violent means. Although their units detonated bombs in government buildings over the next years, the ANC and PAC were not a military threat to the state, which had a monopoly of modern weapons. Small Arms See also List of firearms Small Arms (Pistols) Semi-automatic handgun Beretta Beretta 92F/FS (M9) Colt Model 1900 Model 1902 Sporting Model 1902 Military Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless Model 1903 Pocket Hammer Model 1905 Military Model 1907 Military Model 1908 Vest Pocket Model 1908 Pocket Hammerless Model...

Resistance goes underground

The accused in the Rivonia Trial.

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Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd declared a state of emergency, giving security forces the right to detain people without trial. Over 18,000 demonstrators were arrested, including much of the ANC and PAC leadership, and both organisations were banned. As activists continued to be arrested, the ANC and PAC began a campaign of sabotage through the armed wings of their organisations, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation, MK) and Poqo ("Pure" or "Alone"), respectively. In July 1963, members of the ANC underground movement, including Govan Mbeki, Ahmed Kathadra and Dennis Goldberg, were arrested. Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister A prime minister may be either: chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the... Silver medal commemorating Verwoerds death. ... A state of emergency is a governmental declaration that may suspend certain normal functions of government, may work to alert citizens to alter their normal behaviors, or may order government agencies to implement emergency preparedness plans. ... In legal parlance, a trial is an event in which parties to a dispute present information (in the form of evidence) in a formal setting, usually a court, before a judge, jury, or other designated finder of fact, in order to achieve a resolution to their dispute. ... The Chicago Police Department arrests a man A protester is arrested during a demonstration. ... Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction. ... For other uses of Umkhonto, see Umkhonto (disambiguation) Umkhonto we Sizwe (or MK), translated Spear of the Nation, was the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). ... July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The UR logo Underground Resistance (commonly abbreviated to UR) are a musical collective from Detroit, Michigan, in the United States of America. ... Govan Archibald Mvuyelwa Mbeki (1910 - 2001) was a South African politician, and father of Thabo Mbeki, the current President of South Africa. ...

Together with ANC leader Nelson Mandela, who had already been arrested on other charges, they were tried for treason at the widely publicised Rivonia Trial. In June 1964, Mandela and seven others were sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorism. Oliver Tambo, another member of the ANC leadership, managed to escape South Africa and was to lead the ANC in exile for another 30 years. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, (born July 18, 1918), was the first democratically elected President of South Africa, having previously been a prominent anti-apartheid activist there. ... In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to ones nation. ... The Rivonia Trial was an infamous trial which took place in South Africa between 1963 and 1964, in which ten leaders of the African National Congress were tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to ferment violent revolution. Origins It was named after Rivonia, the suburb of Johannesburg where 19... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... Oliver Reginald Tambo (27 October 1917 - 24 April 1993) was a South African anti-apartheid politician and a central figure in the African National Congress (ANC). ...

"I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." —Nelson Mandela, 20 April 1964, Rivonia Trial.

The trial was condemned by the United Nations Security Council, and was a major force in the introduction of international sanctions against the South African government. With the ANC, PAC and South African Communist Party banned, and Mandela and his fellow leaders in jail or exile, South Africa entered some of its most troubled times. Apartheid legislation was increasingly enforced, and the walls between the races were built even higher, culminating in the creation of separate Homelands for blacks. In 1966, Verwoerd was stabbed to death, but his policies continued under B.J. Vorster and later P.W. Botha. The United Nations Security Council is the most powerful organ of the United Nations. ... Sanctions is the plural of sanction (see also penalty). ... SACP symbol South African Communist Party (SACP) is a political party in South Africa. ... Exile is a form of punishment. ... A homeland is the concept of the territory to which one belongs; usually, the country in which a particular nationality was born. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... The word stab can have these meanings:- The act of stabbing with a sharp instrument. ... B. J. Vorster Balthazar Johannes Vorster (December 13, 1915 - September 10, 1983), better known as John Vorster, was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978, and President from 1978 to 1979. ... P.W. Botha Pieter Willem Botha, (born January 12, 1916) commonly known as P.W. and as die groot krokodil (the great crocodile) was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and State President of South Africa from 1984 to 1989. ...

Famous photograph of the Soweto Riots showing a scholar carrying the body of Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties .

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The Black Consciousness Movement, and the Soweto riots

During the 1970s, resistance again gained force, first channelled through trade unions and strikes, and then spearheaded by the South African Student Organisation under the charismatic leadership of Steve Biko. Biko, a medical student, was the main force behind the growth of South Africa's Black Consciousness Movement, which stressed the need for psychological liberation, black pride, and non-violent opposition to apartheid^[7]. The Black Consciousness Movement was a movement which called for non-violent black resistance to the Apartheid government in South Africa. ... The Soweto Riots, were a series of riots in Soweto, South Africa by black youth against the Apartheid regime. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Stephen Biko Stephen Bantu Biko (December 18, 1946 – September 12, 1977) was a noted nonviolent anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s. ... The Black Consciousness Movement was a movement which called for non-violent black resistance to the Apartheid government in South Africa. ... Black pride is a slogan used interchangeably to depict both the movement of and concept within the politically active African-American community, especially in the United States. ...

In 1974 the government issued the Afrikaans Medium Decree which forced all schools to use the Afrikaans language when teaching blacks mathematics, social sciences, geography and history at the secondary school level. Punt Janson, the Deputy Minister of Bantu Education was quoted as saying: "I have not consulted the African people on the language issue and I'm not going to. An African might find that 'the big boss' only spoke Afrikaans or only spoke English. It would be to his advantage to know both languages." 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Mathematics Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Mathematics Look up Mathematics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Mathematics Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles — A collection of articles on various math topics, with interactive Java... The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study the human aspects of the world. ... History studies the past in human terms. ... Secondary education is a period of education which, in most contemporary educational systems of the world, follows directly after primary education, and which may be followed by tertiary, post-secondary, or higher education (e. ... In Canada, a Deputy Minister is the senior civil servant in a government department and assists the Minister of the department who is a member of the Canadian Cabinet. ... Map showing the approximate distribution of Bantu (dull yellow) vs. ...

The policy was deeply unpopular, since Afrikaans was regarded as the language of the oppressor. On 30 April 1976, children at Orlando West Junior School in Soweto went on strike, refusing to go to school. Their rebellion spread to other schools in Soweto. The students organised a mass rally for 16 June 1976, which turned violent — police responded with bullets to stones thrown by children. Hector Pieterson, aged 12, was one of the first of 566 children who died at the hands of the police. (The first child to be shot by the police was Hastings Ndlovu, aged 15.) The incident triggered widespread violence throughout South Africa, which claimed further lives. April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Johannesburg, including Soweto, from the International Space Station Soweto is an urban area in Johannesburg, in Gauteng province South Africa whose northern boundary begins about 15km south-west of central Johannesburg. ... June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Hector Pieterson (1964 – June 16, 1976) became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto Uprising in apartheid South Africa when a news photograph by Sam Mzima of the dying Hector being carried by a fellow student, was published around the world. ... Hastings Ndlovu, (Born 1961; Died June 16, 1976) was a black Soweto schoolboy who died in the Soweto Riots. ...

In September 1977, Steve Biko was arrested. Unidentified security police beat him until he lapsed into a coma; he went without medical treatment for three days and finally died in Pretoria. At the subsequent inquest, the magistrate ruled that no one was to blame, although the South African Medical Association eventually took action against the doctors who had failed to treat Biko. South Africa was never to be the same again. A generation of young blacks committed themselves to a revolutionary struggle against apartheid under the catchphrase of "liberation before education", and the black communities were politicised. September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with 30 days. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... A magistrate is a judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. ...

White resistance

While the majority of white South Africans supported the apartheid system, a substantial minority opposed it. In parliamentary elections during the 1970s and 1980s between 15% and 20% of white voters voted for the liberal Progressive Party, whose MP Helen Suzman provided for many years the only Parliamentary opposition to apartheid. Suzman's critics argue that she did not achieve any notable political successes, but helped to shore up claims by the Nationalists that internal, public criticism of apartheid was permitted. Suzman's supporters point to her use of her parliamentary privileges to help the poorest and most disempowered South Africans in any way she could. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... The Progressive Party was a liberal South African party that opposed the ruling National Partys policies of apartheid. ... Helen Suzman was born Helen Gavronsky on 7th November 1917 in Germiston, South Africa as the daughter of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants. ...

Non-violent resistance to apartheid came from the Black Sash, an organisation of white women formed in 1955 to oppose the removal of Coloured (mixed-race) voters from the Cape Province voters' roll. Covert resistance was expressed by banned organisations like the largely white South African Communist Party, whose leader Joe Slovo was also Chief of Staff of the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe. Whites also payed a significant role in opposing apartheid during the 1980s through the United Democratic Front. Cultural opposition to apartheid came from internationally known writers like Breyten Breytenbach and Alan Paton (who founded the Liberal Party of South Africa) and clerics like Dr Beyers Naudé. The Black Sash was a non-violent white womens resistance organisation founded in 1955 in South Africa by Jean Sinclair. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In the South African and Namibian context, the term Coloured (also known as Bruinmense, Kleurlinge or Bruine Afrikaners) refers to a rather heterogenous group of people of mixed Khoisan and white European descent with some degree of Malay, [[Malagasy, Black (Bantu) and South Indian ancestry (especially in the Western Cape... Under the Union of South Africa and after that under the Republic of South Africa, the old Cape Colony became the Cape of Good Hope Province (though it was commonly known as the Cape Province). ... SACP symbol South African Communist Party (SACP) is a political party in South Africa. ... Joe Slovo Joe Slovo (May 23, 1926 – January 6, 1995) was a South African Communist politician and long time leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and leading member of the African National Congress. ... ANC redirects here. ... For other uses of Umkhonto, see Umkhonto (disambiguation) Umkhonto we Sizwe (or MK), translated Spear of the Nation, was the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). ... Breyten Breytenbach (born September 16, 1939) is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship. ... Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African author. ... Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé (more commonly known as Beyers Naudé or simply Oom Bey (Uncle Bey) in Afrikaans) (10 May 1915 - 7 September 2004) was an Afrikaner-South African cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid activist. ...

International relations

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South Africa officially took possession of South-West Africa after it was conquered from the Germans during World War I. Following the war, the Treaty of Versailles declared the territory to be a League of Nations Mandate under South African administration. South Africa formally excluded Walvis Bay from the mandate and annexed it as an enclave. The Mandate was supposed to become a United Nations Trust Territory when League of Nations Mandates were transferred to the United Nations (UN) following World War II, but the Union of South Africa refused to agree to allow the territory to begin the transition to independence. Instead it was treated as a de facto 'fifth province' of the Union. The South African government turned this mandate arrangement into a military occupation, and extended apartheid to South-West Africa — later re-named Namibia by the UN. Foreign Relations of South Africa South African forces fought on the Allied side in both World War I and World War II, and it participated in the postwar United Nations force in the Korean War. ... South-West Africa is the former name (1884-1990) of Namibia under German (as German South-West Africa, Deutsch Süd-West Afrika) and (from 1915) South African administration when it was conquered from the Germans during World War I. Following the war, the Treaty of Versailles declared the territory... Clockwise from top: Trenches in frontline, a British Mark I Tank crossing a trench, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the battle of the Dardanelles, a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks and a Sopwith Camel biplane. ... The areas marked in yellow were removed from the control of Germany, or demiliterised (The Rhineland). ... League of Nations mandates were territories established under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, 28 June 1919. ... Walvis Bay, Namibia Walvis Bay, (Afrikaans: Walvisbaai meaning Whale Bay), is an area in Namibia with a chequered history. ... United Nations Trust Territories were the successors of the League of Nations mandates and came into being when the League of Nations ceased to exist in 1946. ... Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 17 million military deaths 7 million military deaths World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is accepted as the largest and deadliest...

In 1960, tensions came to a head in the Sharpeville Massacre. Soon thereafter, Verwoerd announced a referendum on whether the country should sever links with the British monarchy and become a republic instead. In order to secure a majority in favour, Verwoerd lowered the voting age for whites to 18 and included whites in South West Africa on the voter's roll. The referendum on 5 October that year asked whites "Do you support a republic for the Union?" — 52 per cent voted 'Yes'. 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... South African police officers standing over people killed in the Sharpeville massacre. ... On 5th October, 1960, South Africas white minority government held a referendum on whether or not the then Union should sever links with the British monarchy and become a republic. ... This article describes the British monarchy from the perspective of the United Kingdom. ... In a broad definition, a republic is a state whose political organization rests on the principle that the citizens or electorate constitute the ultimate root of legitimacy and sovereignty. ... South-West Africa is the former name (1884-1990) of Namibia under German (as German South-West Africa, Deutsch Süd-West Afrika) and (from 1915) South African administration when it was conqured from the Germans during World War I. Following the war, the Treaty of Versailles declared the territory... October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ...

As a consequence of this change of status, South Africa needed to reapply for continued membership of the Commonwealth, with which it had privileged trade links, but when it became clear that African and Asian member states would oppose it due to the apartheid policies being enforced, South Africa withdrew from the Commonwealth on 31 May 1961, the day that the Republic came into existence. The Commonwealth of Nations, usually known as The Commonwealth, is an association of independent sovereign states, almost all of which are former territories of the British Empire. ... // Etymology World map showing Africa (geographically) The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — land of the Afri (plural, or Afer singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day... World map showing Asia. ... May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Miners reading the newspaper after a riot in a mine on the Witwatersrand was brutally suppressed.

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UN arms embargo

On November 6, 1962, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 1761, condemning South African apartheid policies. On August 7, 1963 the United Nations Security Council established a voluntary arms embargo against South Africa. Following the Soweto uprising in 1976, and its brutal suppression by the apartheid regime, the arms embargo was made mandatory by the UN Security Council on November 4, 1977 and South Africa became increasingly isolated internationally. Numerous conferences were held and the United Nations passed resolutions condemning South Africa, including the World Conference Against Racism in 1978 and 1983. A significant divestment movement started, pressuring investors to refuse to invest in South African companies or companies that did business with South Africa. South African sports teams were barred from participation in international events, and South African culture and tourism were boycotted. November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 55 days remaining. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... United Nations General Assembly The United Nations General Assembly (GA) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations. ... United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1761 was passed on 6 November 1962 in response to the racist policies of apartheid established by the South African Government. ... August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A session of the Security Council in progress The United Nations Security Council is the most powerful organ of the United Nations. ... November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 57 days remaining. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Main articles: League of Nations & History of the United Nations The term United Nations was coined by Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, to refer to the Allies. ... The World Conference against Racism (WCAR) has been held three times: in 1978, 1983, and 2001. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset, for either financial or social goals. ... A boycott is a refusal to buy, sell, or otherwise trade with an individual or business who is generally believed by the participants in the boycott to be doing something morally wrong. ...

Total onslaught

By 1980, South Africa was the only country in Africa with a white government and a constitution discriminating against the majority of its citizens. As international opinion turned decisively against the apartheid regime, the government and most of the white population increasingly saw the country as a bastion besieged by communism, atheism, and black anarchy. Considerable effort was put into circumventing sanctions, and the government even collaborated with Israel in developing nuclear weapons, which have since been destroyed. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... // Etymology World map showing Africa (geographically) The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — land of the Afri (plural, or Afer singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day... The point of a bastion on a reconstructed French fort in Illinois. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of god(s). ... Anarchy (New Latin anarchia, from Greek ανα–, no + αρχη, rule) is a term that has several usages. ... Sanctions is the plural of sanction (see also penalty). ... South Africa developed six or seven gun-type fission nuclear weapons in the 1980s. ...

Negotiating majority rule with the ANC was not considered an option, at least publicly, which left the government to defend the country against external and internal threats through sheer military might. A siege mentality developed among whites, and although many realised that a civil war against the black majority could not be won, they preferred this to "giving in" to political reform. Brutal police and military actions seemed entirely justifiable. Paradoxically, the international sanctions that cut whites off from the rest of the world enabled black leaders to develop sophisticated political skills, as those in exile forged ties with regional and world leaders. A civil war is a war in which the competing parties are segments of the same country or empire. ...

The term 'front-line states' referred to the countries in Southern Africa geographically close to South Africa. Although the front-line states were all opposed to apartheid, many were economically dependent on South Africa. Thus, in 1980 they formed the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference (SADCC). The aim of SADCC was to promote economic development in the region and to reduce dependence on South Africa. Furthermore, many SADCC members also allowed the exiled ANC and PAC to establish bases in their countries. Categories: Africa geography stubs | Southern Africa ... ANC redirects here. ... PAC or Pac may refer to several articles: Pan Africanist Congress, a political party in South Africa. ...

Destabilisation and sabotage

South Africa's policy of 'destabilisation' aimed to combat SADCC support of the ANC and PAC, by destroying their bases, weakening support for these organisations, and hindering social economic development in SADCC countries. Destabilisation included: ANC redirects here. ... PAC or Pac may refer to several articles: Pan Africanist Congress, a political party in South Africa. ...

• Support for anti-government guerrilla groups such as UNITA in Angola and RENAMO in Mozambique
• South African Defence Force (SADF; now the South African National Defence Force; SANDF) hit-squad raids into front-line states. Bombing raids were also conducted into neighbouring states.
• A full-scale invasion of Angola: this was partly in support of UNITA, but was also an attempt to strike at SWAPO bases.
• Targeting of exiled ANC leaders abroad: Joe Slovo's wife Ruth First was killed by a parcel bomb in Maputo, and 'death squads' of the Civil Co-operation Bureau and the Directorate of Military Intelligence attempted to carry out assassinations on ANC targets in Brussels, Paris and Stockholm, as well as burglaries and bombings in London.

The project met with much 'success'^[8], in Angola and Mozambique hundreds of thousands were killed in bitter civil wars, food production ceased in large areas, millions were made homeless, and thousands were maimed in landmine accidents. All of South Africa's white males were liable for national service and thousands fled into exile to avoid conscription. Many more were scarred mentally and physically by their participation in vicious struggles in the region, or in the townships. UNITA sticker The União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) is an Angolan political faction. ... The Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO; Portuguese: Resistência Nacional Moçambicana) is a conservative political party in Mozambique led by Afonso Dhlakama. ... The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is the name of the armed forces of South Africa. ... The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is the name of the armed forces of South Africa. ... UNITA sticker The União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) is an Angolan political faction. ... The South-West Africa Peoples Organisation (SWAPO) was founded, along with a number of other groups, as a liberation organisation: following the first world war, South-West Africa — formerly a German colony — was turned over to South Africa to rule as a mandate for the British. ... Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (French: Bruxelles, Dutch: Brussel, German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium, the French community of Belgium, the Flemish community and of the European Union. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The Old town in Stockholm from the air â–¶(?) is the capital of Sweden, located on the east coast at the entrance of lake Mälaren. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... A landmine is a type of mine which is placed onto or into the ground and explodes when triggered by a vehicle or person. ...

In 1984 Mozambican president Samora Machel signed the Nkomati Accord with South Africa's president P.W. Botha, in an attempt to rebuild Mozambique's economy. Although South Africa agreed to cease supporting anti-government forces, their support of RENAMO continued. In 1986 President Machel himself was killed in an air crash in mountainous terrain near the South African border after returning from a meeting in Zambia. South Africa was suspected of sabotaging Machel's Soviet-built presidential aircraft. US President Reagan and President Samora Machel of Mozambique Samora Moisés Machel (September 29, 1933 - October 19, 1986) was President of Mozambique from 1975 until he died eleven years later, when his presidential aircraft crashed in mountainous terrain where the borders of Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland converge. ... The Nkomati Accord was a nonagression treaty signed in 1984 between Mozambique and the Republic of South Africa. ... P.W. Botha Pieter Willem Botha, (born January 12, 1916) commonly known as P.W. and as die groot krokodil (the great crocodile) was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and State President of South Africa from 1984 to 1989. ... The Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO; Portuguese: Resistência Nacional Moçambicana) is a conservative political party in Mozambique led by Afonso Dhlakama. ...

On December 21, 1988 UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, was en route to the signing ceremony in New York, whereby South Africa was to cede control of Namibia to the UN, after over a decade of defiance of Security Council Resolution 435. Carlsson was among 270 people killed when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie in Scotland. Because foreign minister Pik Botha and a 22-strong South African delegation were due to travel on the doomed flight — but cancelled their booking at short notice — some also suspect South African involvement in the PA 103 sabotage. December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bernt Wilmar Carlsson was born in 1938 in Stockholm, Sweden and died in the Lockerbie bombing on December 21, 1988. ... The nose – containing the flight crew and the first-class section – landed in a farmers field beside a tiny church at Tundergarth, 4km east of Lockerbie Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from Londons Heathrow International Airport to New York... Lockerbie is a town located in the Dumfries and Galloway region of south-western Scotland. ... ... Pik Botha Roelof Frederik Pik Botha (born April 27, 1932, in Rustenburg, Transvaal, South Africa), is a South African politician who served as the countrys foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era. ...

Conservatism

The National Party government implemented, alongside apartheid, a program of social conservatism. Certain edgy movies, gambling and other vices were totally banned. At the same time, it instituted the International Freedom Foundation, which funded such movies as Jack Abramoff's Red Scorpion. Printed or filmed pornography (of even the mildest variety) was banned and possession of such was punishable by incarceration. Conservatism is any of a number of political philosophies supporting traditional values or an established social order. ... The International Freedom Foundation (IFF), founded in 1986, was described as a Washington conservative think-tank with branches in Johannesburg and London, but was actually a front organization for apartheid South Africas Directorate of Military Intelligence. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Television was not introduced until 1976 because it was viewed as immoral by the authorities. Even after the introduction of TV, broadcasting was initially restricted to a few hours a day. Although economically the most advanced country on the continent, South Africa was among the last countries in Africa to introduce television. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Sunday, as the Sabbath, was considered holy. Cinemas, liquor stores and most other businesses were forbidden from operating from Saturday afternoon until Sunday morning. Abortion and sex education were also restricted. Abortion was legal, however only in cases of rape or if the mother's life was in any way threatened. This article concerns the Sabbath in Christianity. ... Sex education is education about sexual reproduction in human beings, sexual intercourse and other aspects of human sexual behavior. ...

State security

Towards the end of the 1970s, the government became increasingly preoccupied with security. The South African media had always been supportive of the regime, the Afrikaans-language press particularly so. However, after the Soweto riots, the government began to impose more formal measures of censorship to protect its interests. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...

Things changed even more with the coming to power of Prime Minister and later State President P.W. Botha. Under Botha, while the government began reforming apartheid, the state security apparatus grew even more. As states of emergency prompted by violence continued intermittently throughout the 1980s, the government became increasingly dominated by Botha's circle of generals and police chiefs. P.W. Botha Pieter Willem Botha, (born January 12, 1916) commonly known as P.W. and as die groot krokodil (the great crocodile) was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and State President of South Africa from 1984 to 1989. ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ...

Botha's years in power were marked by numerous military interventions in the states bordering South Africa and by an extensive military and political campaign to eliminate SWAPO in Namibia. Within South Africa, vigorous police action and strict enforcement of security legislation resulted in hundreds of arrests and bannings and an effective end to the ANC's stepped-up campaign of sabotage in the 1970s.

HIV/AIDS epidemic

Amidst this turmoil, an even darker shadow began to move across South Africa. In 1982, the first recorded death from HIV occurred in the country. Within a decade, the number of recorded AIDS cases had risen to over 1,000, and by the mid-1990s, it had reached 10,000. Yet, these officially recorded cases were only the tip of the iceberg, with some estimates placing the actual number of HIV-positive cases at close to one million in 1995. Fuelled by the entrenched migrant labour system at South Africa's mines, AIDS is estimated to have been spreading at the explosive rate of over 500 new cases per day. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Human immunodeficiency virus, commonly known by the acronym HIV, is a retrovirus that primarily infects vital components of the human immune system such as CD4+ T cells, macrophages and dendritic cells. ... The Red Ribbon is the global symbol for solidarity with HIV-positive people and those living with AIDS. AIDS is an acronym for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and is defined as a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the depletion of the immune system caused... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. ... An iceberg (berg is the German word for mountain), in German called Eisberg (pronounced the same way as the English iceberg, but -berg with the e like in led) is a large piece of ice that has broken off from a glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open... HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a retrovirus that infects cells of the human immune system. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In the late 1980s, the South African Chamber of Mines began an education campaign to try and stem the rise of cases. But without a change in the underlying conditions of mine workers, a major factor contributing to the epidemic, success could hardly be expected. Long periods away from home under bleak conditions and a few days leave a month were the apartheid-induced realities of the life thousands of miners and other labourers worked. Compounding the problem was the fact that as of the mid-1990s, many health officials were still focused more on the incidence of tuberculosis than HIV. The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... Tuberculosis (commonly shortened to TB) is an infection caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (Miliary tuberculosis), genitourinary system, bones and joints. ...

Winds of change

White settlement was concentrated in only a few areas of South Africa.

Police in Alexandra Township, 1985.

The most violent time of the 1980s were 1985–88, when the P.W. Botha government embarked on a savage campaign to eliminate opposition. For three years police and soldiers patrolled South African towns in armed vehicles, destroying black squatter camps and detaining, abusing and killing thousands of blacks and coloureds. Rigid censorship laws tried to conceal the events by banning media and newspaper coverage. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (940x735, 914 KB) Summary Source [1] Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (940x735, 914 KB) Summary Source [1] Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... South African police at Alexandra Township in 1985. ... South African police at Alexandra Township in 1985. ... This article is about the year. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... P.W. Botha Pieter Willem Botha, (born January 12, 1916) commonly known as P.W. and as die groot krokodil (the great crocodile) was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and State President of South Africa from 1984 to 1989. ...

In the early 1980s, the white government began to admit the need for change, due to a combination of internal violence, international condemnation, and changing demographics — whites constituted only 16% of the total population and dropping, in comparison to 20% fifty years earlier. Recognising the inevitability of change, P.W. Botha told white South Africans to "adapt or die". In 1984 some reforms were introduced. Many of the apartheid laws were repealed, including the pass laws. A new constitution was introduced, which gave limited representation to certain non-whites, although not to the black majority. But Botha stopped short of full reform, and many blacks as well as the international community felt that the changes were only cosmetic. Protests and resistance continued full force, as South Africa became increasingly polarised and fragmented and unrest was widespread. A white backlash also arose, giving rise to a number of neo-Nazi paramilitary groups, notably the Afrikanerweerstandsbeweging (AWB), lead by Eugène Terre'Blanche. The opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) was also formed at this time. With a broad coalition of members, led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Reverend Allan Boesak, it called for the government to abandon its proposed reforms, and instead to abolish apartheid and eliminate the homelands. The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ... A paramilitary organization is a group of civilians trained and organized in a military fashion. ... The flag of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging The Afrikanerweerstandsbeweging, also called Afrikaner Resistance Front or AWB, is an extremist right-wing political group of South Africa. ... Eugène Ney TerreBlanche (born 1944) is an Afrikaner white supremacist who founded the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging. ... The United Democratic Front (UDF) was one of the most important anti-apartheid organisations of the 1980s. ... In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop heading a diocese of particular importance due to either its size, history, or both, called an archdiocese. ... Archbishop Desmond Tutu Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born October 7, 1931) is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. ... The Reverend is an honorary prefix added to the names of Christian clergy and ministers. ... Reverend Allan Boesak (23 February 1945 - ) is a South African Dutch Reformed Church cleric and was a politician and anti-apartheid activist. ...

International pressures also increased, as economic sanctions began to dig in harder, and the value of the rand collapsed. In 1985, the government declared a state of emergency, which was to stay in effect for the next five years. The media was censored, and by 1988, 30,000 people had been detained without trial and thousands tortured. The old R1 and new R10 bank notes The Rand is the currency of South Africa. ... This article is about the year. ... The examples and perspective in this article do not represent a worldwide view. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Iron Maiden of Nuremberg was an infamous and rarely used torture device. ...

A funeral ceremony for those killed by the police on 1985's International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Uitenhage.

In 1986, President Botha announced to parliament that South Africa had "outgrown" apartheid. The government began a series of minor reforms in the direction of racial equality, while maintaining an iron grip on the media and all anti-apartheid demonstrations. The police entered the townships and Homelands in this time to violently suppress any protests, killing many protesters in the process which caused even larger protests. As the security situation in South Africa continued to deteriorate, many white South Africans fled the country as refugees. On February 13, 1989, an ailing Botha, under pressure from the US and Britain, resigned and was succeeded later that year by FW de Klerk. At his opening address to parliament in February 1990, De Klerk announced that he would repeal discriminatory laws and lift the ban on the ANC, the PAC, and the Communist Party. Media restrictions were lifted, and De Klerk released political prisoners not guilty of common-law crimes. On 11 February 1990, 28 years after he had first been incarcerated, Nelson Mandela walked out of the grounds of Victor Verster Prison a free man. Mourners at a funeral ceremony for those killed by South African police on 1985s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, at Langa Township in Uitenhage. ... Mourners at a funeral ceremony for those killed by South African police on 1985s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, at Langa Township in Uitenhage. ... Underwater funeral in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea A funeral is a ceremony marking a persons death. ... This article is about the year. ... The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on 21 March. ... Uitenhage is a South African town located near the city of Port Elizabeth in Eastern Cape Province. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In South Africa, the term township usually refers to the (often underdeveloped) urban residential areas that, under Apartheid, were reserved for non-whites (Africans, Coloureds and Indians) who lived near or worked in areas that were designated white-only. Soweto (actually a group of townships) and Alexandra are two of... February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... President F.W. de Klerk Frederik Willem de Klerk (born March 18, 1936) is a former President of South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. ... February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... The South African Communist Party (SACP) was founded in 1921 as the Communist Party of South Africa. ... The common law forms a major part of the law of many countries, especially those with a history as British territories or colonies. ... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, (born July 18, 1918), was the first democratically elected President of South Africa, having previously been a prominent anti-apartheid activist there. ... Victor Verster Prison (also called Klein Drakenstein and later renamed as Drakenstein Correctional Centre) is a low security prison near Paarl in the valley of the Dwars River in the Western Cape of South Africa. ...

Crossroads township, 1990.

Having been forced by the UN Security Council to end its long-standing military occupation in Namibia, South Africa had to relinquish control of the disputed territory, and it officially became an independent state on 21 March 1990. A man from Crossroads, South Africa, makes music with his guitar, in 1990. ... A man from Crossroads, South Africa, makes music with his guitar, in 1990. ... A session of the Security Council in progress The United Nations Security Council is the most powerful organ of the United Nations. ... March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). ... This article is about the year. ...

From 1990 to 1991, the legal apparatus of apartheid was abolished. A referendum in March 1992, the last whites-only vote held in South Africa, overwhelmingly gave the government authority to negotiate a new constitution with the ANC and other groups. 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

In December 1991, the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa) began negotiations on the formation of a multiracial transitional government and a new constitution extending political rights to all groups. Months of wrangling finally produced a compromise and an election date, although at considerable human cost. Political violence exploded across the country during this time, particularly in the wake of the assassination of Chris Hani, the popular leader of South Africa's Communist Party. It is now known that elements within the police and army contributed to this violence. There have also been claims that high-ranking government officials and politicians ordered, or at least condoned, massacres. Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Template:DecemberCalendar2006 December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... It has been suggested that Targeted killing be merged into this article or section. ... Chris Hani, born Martin Thembisile Hani (June 28, 1942 – April 10, 1993) was the leader of the South African Communist Party and Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). ... The word massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass killing, especially of noncombatant civilians or other innocents, that would often qualify as war crimes or atrocities. ...

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela addressing the crowd from a balcony of the City Hall in Cape Town on 9 May 1994, the day before his inauguration.

In 1993, a draft constitution was published, guaranteeing freedom of speech and religion, access to adequate housing and numerous other benefits, and explicitly prohibiting discrimination on almost any ground. Finally, at midnight on 26–27 April 1994, the old flag was lowered, and the old (now co-official) national anthem Die Stem ("The Call") was sung, followed by the raising of the new rainbow flag and singing of the other co-official anthem, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika ("God Bless Africa"). The election went off peacefully amidst a palpable feeling of goodwill throughout the country. Image File history File links Nelson_Mandela_Being_Sworn_In. ... Image File history File links Nelson_Mandela_Being_Sworn_In. ... The President of South Africa is the head of state and head of government under South Africas Constitution. ... Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, (born July 18, 1918), was the first democratically elected President of South Africa, having previously been a prominent anti-apartheid activist there. ... City motto: Spes Bona (Latin: Good Hope) Province Western Cape Mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo Area  - % water 1,644 km² 0. ... May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... An inauguration is a ceremony of formal investiture whereby an individual assumes an office or position of authority or power. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... (Redirected from 26 April) April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Die Stem van Suid-Afrika (English: The Call of South Africa) was the national anthem of South Africa from 1957 to 1994, and shared national anthem status with Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika between 1994 and 1997. ... Flag ratio: 2:3 The current design of the National Flag of the Republic of South Africa was adopted on 27 April 1994, the end of apartheid prompting the widespread conviction that a new national flag must include the cultures of all South Africans. ... Since 1997, The South African national anthem has been a hybrid song combining verses from the national anthem under the apartheid government Die Stem van Suid-Afrika and the popular hymn of the African National Congress and other black organisations Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika. This makes it perhaps the only national... 1994 General Election results, National Assembly African National Congress (ANC) 12,237,655 62. ...

The ANC won 62.7% of the vote, less than the 66.7% that would have allowed it to rewrite the constitution. As well as deciding the national government, the election decided the provincial governments, and the ANC won in all but two provinces. The NP captured most of the white and Coloured vote and became the official opposition party.

Since then, April 27 is celebrated as a public holiday in South Africa known as Freedom Day. Holidays in South Africa: The Public Holidays Act (Act No 36 of 1994) determines that whenever any public holiday falls on a Sunday, the Monday following it will be a public holiday. ... Freedom Day in South Africa, celebrates freedom and the first elections held after apartheid, when Nelson Mandela was elected as President of South Africa in 1994. ...

In 1993, Frederik Willem de Klerk and Nelson Mandela were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa". F.W. de Klerk State President of South Africa 1989–1994 Vice President of South Africa 1994–1996 Frederik Willem de Klerk (born March 18, 1936) was the last State President of Apartheid South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. ... Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, (born July 18, 1918), was the first democratically elected President of South Africa, having previously been a prominent anti-apartheid activist there. ... The Nobel Peace Prize Medal featuring a portrait of Alfred Nobel The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ...

See also

• Afrikaner Calvinism
• African National Congress
• Bantustan
• Caste
• Cry, The Beloved Country
• Desmond Tutu
• Dhimmi laws
• Discrimination
• Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
• History of Namibia
• Integration
• Jim Crow laws
• Laurens van der Post
• Minoritarianism
• Multiculturalism
• Nelson Mandela
• Pieter-Dirk Uys
• Racism
• Racial segregation
• Ruth Hayman
• Steve Biko
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• White supremacism
• Trevor Huddleston

Afrikaner Calvinism is a unique cultural development that combined the Calvinist religion with the political aspirations of the white Afrikaans speaking people of South Africa. ... The African National Congress (ANC) is a centre-left political party, and has been South Africas governing party (in a coalition) since the establishment of majority rule in May 1994. ... Map of the black homelands in South Africa as of 1986 Bantustan refers to any of the territories designated as tribal homelands for black South Africans and Namibians during the apartheid era. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 2003 paperback edition (Scribners) Cry, The Beloved Country is a novel by South African author Alan Paton. ... Archbishop Desmond Tutu Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born October 7, 1931) is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. ... A Dhimmi, or Zimmi (Arabic ذمي), as defined in classical Islamic legal and political literature, is a person living in a Muslim state who is a member of an officially tolerated non-Islamic religion. ... To discriminate is to make a distinction. ... Silver medal commemorating Verwoerds death. ... The history of Namibia has passed through several distinct stages, and Namibia as a modern state has only existed since the early 1980s. ... Integration may be any of the following: In the most general sense, integration may be any bringing together of things: the integration of two or more economies, cultures, religions (usually called syncretism), etc. ... A depiction of T.D. Rices Jim Crow In the United States, the so-called Jim Crow laws were made to enforce racial segregation, and included laws that would prevent African Americans from doing things that a white person could do. ... Sir Laurens Jan van der Post by Frances Baruch Sir Laurens Jan van der Post (aka Laurens van der Post) December 13, 1906 - December 16, 1996. ... Minoritarianism (often also called minority rule) is a political philosophy or agenda which asserts that a segment of a countrys population (sometimes categorized by religion, language or some other identifying factor) to which a minority of its citizens belong is entitled to obstruct political progress sought by a majority... Multiculturalism is the public policy for managing cultural diversity in a multi-ethnic society, officially stressing mutual respect and tolerance for cultural differences within a countrys borders. ... Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, (born July 18, 1918), was the first democratically elected President of South Africa, having previously been a prominent anti-apartheid activist there. ... Pieter-Dirk Uys is a South African satirist, particularly well known for his character Evita Bezuidenhout, a white Afrikaner socialite and self-proclaimed political activist, inspired by Australian comedian Barry Humphries character Dame Edna Everage. ... An African-American man drinks out of the colored only water fountain at a racially segregated streetcar terminal in the United States in 1939. ... It has been suggested that Apartheid outside South Africa be merged into this article or section. ... Ruth Hayman (d. ... Stephen Biko Stephen Bantu Biko (December 18, 1946 – September 12, 1977) was a noted nonviolent anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s. ... The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like body assembled in South Africa after the end of Apartheid. ... White supremacy is the variety of white nationalism that believes the white race should rule over other races. ... Trevor Huddleston (June 15, 1913, – April 20, 1998), was an Anglican priest, one-time Archbishop of Mauritius and the Indian Ocean, and most famous for his anti-Apartheid activism. ...

Notes

1. ^  G Harris, WD Franklin, WD Collins and Edgar Deane.
2. ^  The Separate Universities Act (1959) was aimed at forcing the 'open' universities (UCT & Wits) to accept only white students. Separate universities were established for other race groups, notably the University of Zululand for Zulu students, and UWC for coloureds.
3. ^  White beaches were typically developed; whereas black beaches were situated in remote areas with little or no development.
4. ^  Those that had the money to travel or emigrate out were not given full passports, instead, "travel documents" were issued.
5. ^  Mandela, Nelson p.179.
6. ^  http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/icc/statute/part-a.htm#2, retrieved August 20, 2005.
7. ^  The estimate of 300 is stated at http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa-SharpevilleMassacre-a.htm, retrieved August 20, 2005. An ANC web site states that it was 10,000: http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/misc/sharplle.html, retrieved August 20, 2005.
8. ^  Slightly more contentious was the movement's decision to stop working with white liberals in multi-racial organisations.
9. ^  According to a NUSAS pamphlet entitled Peacing it all together, published in 1984, the civilian death toll in the neighbouring states as a result of South African actions had far exceeded the deaths following the actions of the ANC's military wing.

The University of Cape Town is a major tertiary education institution in Cape Town, South Africa. ... The University of the Witwatersrand (pronounced vit-vaters-rant, with flat vowels -- see South African English) is the leading South African university situated in Johannesburg. ... The Zulu are an African ethnic group of about 11 million people who live mainly in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. ...

References

• Meredith, Martin. In the name of apartheid: South Africa in the postwar period. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.
• Meredith, Martin. The State of Africa. The Free Press, 2005.
• Visser, Pippa. In search of history. Oxford University Press Southern Africa, 2003.
• Louw, P.Eric. The Rise, Fall and Legacy of Apartheid. Praeger, 2004.
• Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. Abacus, 1995.
• Federal Research Division. South Africa - a country study. Library of Congress, 1996.

External links

• "The History of Apartheid in South Africa" - an article written by a student at Stanford
• Bearer of an Ideal - a public release document of the Afrikanerbond (formerly Afrikaner Broederbond): thinktank which influenced policies of separate development in South Africa
• Full text of the UN convention on apartheid
• South Africa, 10 years later from National Public Radio

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