Apartide in South Africa

Apartheid in South Africa and U.S. Involvement
African Politics
Pols 4401-01
April 16th, 2002















From 1948 until 1991, South Africa was a nation separated by forced isolation. The word separateness in Afrikaans, the language of the descendants of Boer Trekkers, is “apartheid”. For Afrikaners, the word would also come to mean white-minority rule in a society where everyone was separated by race according to law. Individual mentality, such as wanting to separate people so that you stay pure, should not violate the rights and freedom of anyone else. Justly, if an individual consciously chooses not to be around certain people, it should not restrict other people from living and mingling with whom they please. Passed from generation to generation was the unjust Boer mentality that, their way of thinking should be away of life for those they conquered.
Harsh treatment and discrimination on behalf of British rule was a major catalyst for “T...