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South African Apartheid

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In the space below, replace the bracketed text with a short paragraph about what you already knew prior to this course about the topic you selected, based on your personal history or experiences. This may include assumptions, beliefs, or values related to the topic. Be as detailed as possible.

South African Apartheid

South African Apartheid was mostly characterized by a tyrannical political discrimination based on white people supremacy. Apartheid ensured South Africa was governed socially, politically, and economically by the country’s white population which was apparently the smallest population. In particular, the white population had the highest status, followed by the Asians, the colored and then the black Africans who always came in last. Isolation of social amenities and separation from social events by the minority white supremacy was one of the contributing factors of apartheid. Housing and employment opportunities was by order of racial and race ability or power. Passing of laws and land apportionment was by order and rule of the white supremacy or rather racial lines in particular. Banning of mixed marriages was also abolished and immorality amended laws were instituted prohibiting sexual relationships and marriage outside racial lines. Places of residence also were made up racial grouping where no other race rather than an individual could only one reside in.

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Identify one question about the topic that you are curious about.

Does Apartheid still exist in South Africa?

Describe why this question matters to you personally.

In the twenty first century, people or rather country men have learned to live in peace and outside racial lines and awareness brought about by the various human rights movements and organization around the world. In light of this, what really matters as a whole is whether this really works or rather just time wastage movements and a resource predator in large.

Describe why this question matters to society.

Eradication of socially, economic, and political distractors is of utmost importance regarding issues lying around racial affiliated boundaries to the development of the society and as a nation as a whole entity.

Identify a second question about the topic you are curious about.

Does economic legacy established post-apartheid era still exist?

Describe why this question matters to you personally.

In particular, apartheid as of today still exist in other forms where it hides in the large businesses owned by a chain of rich local business partners which is underlined by the radical supremacy where race govern a single multi-billion investment therefore allowing for economic legacies governed by various supremacies.

Describe why this question matters to society.

In order to eradicate economic and social apartheid portrayed by economic legacies, reduction of economic supremacies should be put into consideration to ensure growth of the nation in a rather balanced proportion. Social effect should also be brought to a minimum to ensure growth of the society in a rather fashioned way in order to attain social equality and standard proportions.

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Which secondary sources would be helpful for investigating your first research question?

(Include the title and author of the sources.)

Scholarly Book

Trends in South African Income Distribution and Poverty since the end of Apartheid (A.Finn, J.Argen, 2010)

Which primary sources would be helpful for investigating your first research question?

(Include the title and author of the sources.)

Holding Interviews.

Which secondary sources would be helpful for investigating your second research question?

(Include the title and author of the sources.)

Scholarly Book

Political Economy of Post-Apartheid South Africa (V.Gumede, 2017)

Which primary sources would be helpful for investigating your second research question?

(Include the title and author of the sources.)

Holding Interviews.

Now that you have gone through the research, what have you learned about your topic in one to two paragraphs?

South African Apartheid was a misguided scheme by a group of irrational people to try and take advantage of other peoples’ integrity, rights and freedom by trying to undermine them as if they were not people that had the same rights as them. The notion that a particular race was by merit superior than the other based on racial lines was an outrageous betrayal of people’s rights and privileges which should be abolished totally even with the enlightenment that apartheid still exists in South Africa as portrayed by economic legacies and social effects.