Thursday, January 29, 2009

Apartheid of South Africa

These are just one of the many examples of the apartheid. Apartheid was the separation of the 3 races, blacks, whites, and coloured. Apartheid started the year of 1948. It gave power to the whites to have all power over coloured people. The coloured people would have to stay in town ships, in the outskirt of a larger town. Blacks and coloured had no power they carried around passbooks to show there identity and if they were caught without these they would either be beaten or put into jail. Whites were always given the higher class these 2 races never interacted. The Apartheid ended 1994 because Nelson Mandela( first freely elected black president of South Africa) declared all races come together, as one.

Response Questions:
1. What's your opinion on the apartheid?
2. What would you do if you were a coloured person in this situation?
3. What would you have done in Mandela's situation becoming the first black president ?

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