Published: 11th May, 2024
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South Africa commemorated 30 years since the end of apartheid (on April 27, 1994) and the beginning of its democracy. When Nelson Mandela took office as the nation's first Black president a few days later, apartheid came to an official end.
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- Background: From the 1600s when Dutch settlers arrived, through the 1700s and 1800s when British colonists arrived, South Africa was a project that subjected Black people to laws and practices that were systematically segregationist.
- Law enactment: However, these discriminatory practices were made official and enshrined into law with the 1948 establishment of apartheid.
- It rigorously divided people into distinct classes according on the color of their skin.
- It creates four strata into which the policies firmly and violently divided the country's different racial groups.
- White
- Colored (multiracial)
- Indian
- Black people
- Before 1994, black and other people of colour were denied most basic freedoms, not just the right to vote.
- Finally, the 1994 election changed South Africa and Apartheid ended.
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