Category: Apartheid

Language is one of the primary and essential aspects of life. Besides, language is a powerful tool that can do great things. Both verbal and nonverbal language elements serve as a critical, authoritative mechanism to people. At least people need to use language for communication, identity, and cultural distinction. However, language is commonly misused to…

A wide range of scholarship has drawn on the applicability of the apartheid analysis in the Israel/Palestine context. While some literature, such as Ben Whites Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide (2009), identify exact similarities with South Africa, most of the discourse recognizes apartheid as a legal definition related to the governance of settler-colonial states (Falk,…

Early Life Nelson Mandela was born on July 18th 1918 at Mvezo, a village near the banks of river Mbashe in the district of Umata. He was given the name Rolihlahla, which in the Xhosa language means troublemaker. Although his relatives associated his name with the problems he caused, he never believed that a name…

Hendricks Verwoerd, a Dutch-born South African politician sociologist, journalist, and psychologist. Psychologists study the mind and they seek to understand thoughts, emotions, and feelings. The mind is a powerful weapon that he and other architects of apartheid used to the system came with a long-lasting effect. From 1948 To date we see apartheid running its…

The word Apartheid is a South African word which means a system or policy of discrimination or segregations between different races, which is exactly what occurred in South Africa. The anti-apartheid movement took place in South Africa during the 20th Century between the South Africans, also known as the Khoi-San and the white settlers from…

From the 1950s until the 1990s, Apartheid contained a rebirth of racist legislation in South Africa. From this time, South Africa as well as the world was historically changed and separated through one word, Apartheid. Apartheid (meaning apartness) kept the white and non-white population separated and limited from each other. The non-white population were considered…

This research project has analysed the application of Israeli practices towards non-Jews, mainly Palestinians, both within its domestic borders, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Using the premise of international bodies such as the 1973 Apartheid Convention and the 2002 Rome Statute, a comparison has been drawn with the architect of apartheid, South Africa. Both states…

The Apartheid Museum guides its visitors through South Africas dark history of institutionalized racial segregation from 1948 – 1994, the violence that plagued its opression, the activists who battled the regime and ultimately the onward journey to democracy. Upon entering, each visitor receives a card classifying them on racial grounds (similar to the passbooks black…

The term Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning separateness and is the name for the system of racial segregation that governed South Africa for nearly 50 years, where rules were put in place to protect the domination of the white South Africans over the non white South Africans in every aspect of life. The Afrikaans…

The Republic of South Africa, is a nation located at the Southern most tip of the Continent . It has a population of fifty seven million making it the twenty fourth most populated nation in the world covering an area of 1.22 milion square miles. A majority of its population belonging to Sub-Saharan African ancestry.The…