“I am no racialist and
detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes
from a black man or white man ,” Nelson Mandela.
This
quote represents the notion of “Places and forms of power” very well.
In this
notion we will speak about South Africa and its history with the Apartheid and the action of Nelson Mandela.
First we
will speak about XX South Africa and
the Apartheid while in a second part
we will speak about the actions of
Nelson Mandela.
Problem:
Where is the power in South Africa during the Apartheid and how can we resist X it? (Mixed
your tenses here)
South Africa, has a very rich culture with a very diverse population constituting blacks and white people of different languages; there are
eleven languages; Afrikaans, English, Northern Sotho …just one full stop. This
incredible diversity of culture gave birth to many racial conflicts an example being the white rebellion that we studied in class in an oral
comprehension; and the birth of the Apartheid. This politicS is the consequence of the historic anxiety of the Afrikaners, to
be submerged by the multitude of the surrounding black population.
The
Apartheid started in 1948 in South Africa. It was a system of racial
segregation enforced by The National Party governments of South Africa. Under
witch the rights of majority ‘non-white’ inhabitants of South Africa were minimized and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rules were maintained. The
Afrikaner-dominated National Party developed Apartheid after the World War II.
The four
ideas that were at the heart of Apartheid in South Africa was:
• First,
four different racial groups were created: for white people, colored people,
IndianS and South AfricanS.
• The
second was to establish the superiority
of the whites over the other groups
• The
third set the priority of the whites interestS over those of others(correction done here)
• The fourth was to establish the whites as
the most important nation because the blacks were spread into various groups according to their tribal and
linguistic origins.
Black
people were (you can an adverb like really here)
discriminated against. Many pubs, restaurant and areas…remove these marks developed a special
place for “non-white” people. The discrimination took place ( past tense) in every sphere: juridical, political and
economic.
In this
second part we will speak about the
action of Nelson Mandela and the end of the Apartheid in South Africa. Nelson
Mandela was a black political man who fought
against the Apartheid during X his
lifetime. In 1943, he joined the ANC (African National Congress) and in 1952 he was elected President of
the ANC.
Nelson
Mandela wished for a colour-blind society which
could be on an equal footing and in his
point of view, no system was to rely
on hierarchy in classes of peoples. He thus preached equality and open-mindedness.(try
joining these sentences to create a better flow.)
He was
arrested in 1962 in a manifestation revise this segment that fights against racial
prejudices. Ten years later he was arrested after seventeen months of clandestine living and was imprisoned at the fort of Johannesburg.
In 1970
seventy Black demonstrators were
killed at Sharpeville and the ANC was banned. In 1991, the President South-African
Frederik De Klerk announced the end
of the Apartheid.
In
conclusion, we can say that the Apartheid was a terrible period for South
Africa. Nelson Mandela represents, until
today, a symbol of the fight against the Apartheid.
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