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Introduction

The apartheid period lasted for approximately 50 years and there were many South Africans than the number of whites. The South Africans were aware of the different ways that apartheid was affecting them on individual and community basis. South Africans were in support of what the white colonial masters were doing to other races in South African. The situation was posed by the fact that some whites also joined the segregated races to fight for the end of apartheid. However, one would wonder why South Africans were overwhelmed by their white counterparts despite the strength that they seemed to have including number and support from various bodies and cultural provisions. One reason could have been that this country had not established a strong government and this situation comprised its system making the whites to intrude. Also, there were some practices that promoted cultural discrimination that made it possible for segregation to be made a reality as evident before apartheid. This study seeks to evaluate the possible factors that led to South Africa failing to use collaborative actions to force the whites out of their country and take full control of their land and government despite the back-up that the county had including being greater in number than their whites counterparts.

Summary of the topic based on the primary and secondary sources

According to Farkash (2015), apartheid was a social and political system of governance that was introduced in South Africa during the colonial rule. The system promoted racial segregation and integration something that made it had for South Africans who were majority blacks to live and access good things in their land and from the government. For instance, the apartheid system made good estates to be for white people as they were the rulers of the time. Also, high-class schools and other institution, roads, and other amenities in these good estates that clean water could be found. Hence, apartheid was a social system which adversely impacted many people in South Africa because of their difference in color with the apartheid rules.

Furthermore, Mhlauli et al (2015) states that black South Africans as a result of apartheid could not hold top management positions even in government as racial segregation made them appear like subordinates and casual workers. Apartheid also introduced different means of transport for the blacks and for the whites as well as development funds shares were extremely high for places where whites were living and limited or no development allocated to areas occupied by the blacks.

Williams & Redmond (2010) argues that apartheid was made a reality due to the fact that South Africans had been colonized a situation that left them helpless despite the malpractices based on the historical contexts. During that time, South Africa was an insignificant country implying that it did not have proper government settings in place that would have been used to protect its people. This situation implied that the situation was not based on ignoring the fact that the multi-parties were lacking in the country’s system of governance. Therefore, subjecting the people to one-party rule system of governance compromised the system of SA making it easy for the whites to. According to Chaskalson (2003, harsh situations faced South Africans for around 50 years from 1948 to 1990’s pushing some of their political leaders like Nelson Mandela to start forming political parties to oppose the poor governance that the white government was applying on the people. The coming together of the South African people through the help of their political leaders and international bodies played a major role in gradually bringing apartheid to an end in early 1990s though the white also had put up a great fight for instance jailing some political leaders for a relatively long period.

Discussion of how historical context impacted the apartheid in SA

The National Party was elected to office in 1948 by both the majority black electorates and the minority white counterparts. The party promised the electorates that the whites would continue dominating in all aspects considering their loyalty to the NP. For instance, the party then developed an ideology of “white power” just after getting into power which implied that Africans belonged to a perpetual rural regions and need to be trained to undertake chores such as drawing water, hewing wood and serving their whites counterparts. Also, when the NP won in 1948, the party promised to compromise the education of Africans by limiting their access to get education besides imposing the white rule which it considered significant to prevent the outbreak of struggle for freedom.

However, during 1960s, the dialectic aspect of Nationalist Policies began to shift from then foundation of “white power” which was established upon the National Party winning the election twenty years ago. Also, the strength of apartheid powers was established when the current government in 1960s commenced to flesh out the apartheid into policy which was termed as ‘separate-but equal.’ This policy literally implied racism in the country and all the services would be accorded to South Africans based on their color. For instance, there was a claim that all SA would be allocated to one self-governing homelands among the nine regardless of whether they lived in urban or rural areas. The allocation would be based on factors such as ethnicity and identity of the members. Hence, the issue of apartheid policy resulted from the election of NP into power.

In 1972, the Nationalist Government provided that there was a formation of a separate homeland for South Ndebele despite the desires of this group to have different groups included in governance. The decision to exclude these groups as proposed was based on the fact that it would likely compromise the provisions of the apartheid policy and consequently jeopardize the objective of this policy to enslave the South Africans. However, the collaborative movement by the South African leaders strengthened their move to send away the whites and free the Africans from slavery in 1994 (Louw, 2004) (Lyman, 2014) (Renwick, 2015). The country has then had several developments aimed at ensuring that poverty is ended in the country and that that there is equity in resources distribution

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