Apartheid Policies in South Africa

the other races. Because of apartheid, South Africa is the only nation in the world today where racist policies are part of the legal system and where skin color "irrevocably determines the place of a category of nationals in the social hierarchy" (Cornevin 11).

The system of apartheid is enforced by the white minority through the use of largely oppressive tactics. All decisions pertaining to the lives of South African blacks are made by the members of an all-white parliament (Ngcokovane 20). The system of apartheid has enabled the whites of South Africa, who are a small minority there, to obtain a huge majority of the nation's income and lands (Boesak 5). Apartheid has required that all blacks in South Africa be classified according to race and that they carry documentation at all times. Most South African blacks have been segregated to Bantustans, or "homelands," where there are hardly any usable resources for maintaining self-sufficiency. For this reason, virtually all Sou

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h acts, many black intellectuals in South Africa began organizations of their own, such as the African National Congress (ANC). The racial situation in South Africa became even worse in 1948, when the Afrikaners, who are South African citizens of Dutch origin, took over the government. The National Party, led by the Afrikaners, quickly imposed legislation, which forced the blacks of South Africa into further oppression. Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, who was originally the Minister of Native Affairs for the National Party and later became its Prime Minister, instituted three new laws which were all designed to place stronger control over the blacks. These were the Race Classification Act, the Mixed Marriages Act and the Group Areas Act (Omond 14). Each of these acts sought to control a particular aspect of life on the basis of racial inequality. For instance, the Race Classification Act created the Race Classification Board, a panel made up of strictly white members whose job it is to designate the racial status of each South African 0n the basis of "looks and heritage," (Ngcokovane xvii). The apartheid laws in South Africa have had a powerful negative impact on the education of blacks. Almost all of the schools in South Africa are se
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