How far did the Apartheid lead to problems in South Africa today?

Question

A level history homework! Have to write a 4 page essay. Need 3 main topics included; political, economic and social. Under Political need to include a paragraph on each of these: corruption, Blacks have limited political education, white government angry. Economic: blacks cant get money back, companies don't get back immediately, a lot of unemployment, black income much less. Social: social divide between blacks and whites, black homelands still exist, relationships looked down on.
Sorry very complicated but would be much appreciate, evidence to back up points would also help a lot thanks. Any ideas or examples????

Answer 1

The Group Areas act of 1950 controlled where people could live. The black people where driven into small towns quite far away from city centres, however their jobs were still in these cities and white suburbs. Bus fares were expensive and catching public transport everyday was expensive and caused hardship and depression for the black people.

The Bantu education Act meant that the black students were disadvantaged with their education.





According to many the education system in South Africa is now far worse than under apartheid. - http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Education-worse-than-under-apartheid-20120323





Famous Archbishop Desmond Tutu also said the ANC is not worse than apartheid - http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2011/10/04/anc-worse-than-apartheid-govt-tutu





It is important to show facts in a balanced way as change is constant, and so is history.





There were many white pro apartheid people because of the much larger population of black South Africans, causing the white people to believe that if the black people were given rights and freedoms, they would no longer have political power. The white people were worried that their race would be taken over and they would lose the control they'd always had.





To step back in time as to why apartheid came into power. During 1899 - 1902 the imperialist British empire went to war against two Boer (old name for Afrikaners) when gold and diamonds were discovered. During this time nearly 1/3 of Afrikaner women and children died in British concentration camps. A little known fact is, mass rapes occurred on farms where women and children were looking after the household when men were out on commando. These rapes occurred by mainly Africans, (but also soldiers) taking advantage of the soft targets on the farms. The rapes were also a common occurrence in the concentration camps by Imperial soldiers. (Australians, New Zealanders, British, Canadians)





After this dark time in Afrikaner history, the Afrikaners felt they needed to protect themselves against any majority, in order for something like this not to happen again. This was the birth of Afrikaner nationalism, and they perfected a system started by the British.





Like above people are made to believe "facts are racist" when they do not like what they hear. The truth will set you free. Nobody said you will not feel uncomfortable, or even shame.











Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_apartheid_affect_black_and_white_people#ixzz203gBVwtV

Answer 2

I live in south african :P Yay.. Lol ok! Wait are they asking about all these things NOWADaYS?? Or how it was during apartheid?. Cus now everyones happy :P Lol,, we do have B.E.E though (Black Econimic Empowerment) which is basically that in every company there HAS TO be a certain amount of blackies working there.. i dunno if that'll be helpful



Relationships looked down on?? I'm assuming you mean mixed relationships (different races) Some people do look down upon that but its mostly our grandparents (who went through the whole apartheid thing) and they still kinda have those customs.. But I'm Venezuelan (so I'm tanned but considered "white") and I'm dating a coloured :) and we're happy





Lmao i realize this really doesn't help but i saw "apartheid" and "south africa" and i was like OOHH i wanna answer!! :P

Sorry lol... but yeah.. good luck with yur homework! xx

Answer 3

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Answer 4

south africa has many problems. one in each of them is blacks no longer getting alongside with the whites. by using the years blacks in s africa have killed infinite white peoples, look it up, racism in south africa. disgusting.