What is Apartheid?

Good question. Not an easy answer, because, usually, you alone cannot stop it. Nelson Mandela stopped it by being elected. Not everybody gets elected. And leaders are not usually chosen because of who they are, but what they are fighting for.

The truth is Mandela was an evil man, pretending to be good with the help of the western socialist controlled media. The world is a much better place without commies like him running around spewing crap for liberal idiots to lap up.

I am South African and I have witnessed that beautiful country sink into oblivion. So much for the rainbow nation peddled by the Marxist infested West. South Africa is more racist now and more dangerous than it was during the Apartheid period. The government is beyond corrupt and is completely self-serving. South Africa has become a failed state due to the terrorist government running it.

Today, South Africa is known as the rape capital of the world, where lawlessness runs rampant as blacks commit atrocities against white landowners with little reprisal. Additionally, poverty has increased since the time of Apartheid, with 55 percent of South African blacks living below that level, with per capita income lower now when compared to 1995.

We've taken a terrorist and criminal and made him into an idol of virtue. Apartheid in South Africa was a form of political slavery that segregated the majority from the minority, and its time for dissolution was long past. However, the legacy that Nelson Mandela leaves for a nation he sought to first take by force, then take by secret diplomacy, shows that in the end, Mandela was not about equality and justice, but about achieving power no matter what promises were broken, or what deals he made with the devil.

Some of these arguments are very dangerous. The end does not justify the means if the means by themselves are bad. Reading that the ANC only started to be violent after the Sharp Ville massacre is simply wrong, and even if this were the case, does this justify terrorism? And bombing hospitals is not a noble act of revenge, and neither is the attack on infrastructure killing civilians. These are the same arguments the Nazis used in Germany to justify their doings.

Nothing of this shall or should be used to justify apartheid. It was a bad choice and the supporters of it were wrong regarding my value system, but that does not make everybody who fought apartheid automatically a saint.

Why did Nelson Mandela die?

I think it is wrong for blacks to go to separate schools.

RIP mandela. He was the best person and all Africans should learn from him.

Was Mandela a Christian?

Indeed, Nelson Mandela did get a lot of offers that would have gotten him out of prison, but if he had accepted, the white people would still keep doing the violence, and Apartheid would still be a thing!

ANC, which was the congress that Mandela did kind of run from inside prison, was peaceful until the Sharp Ville massacre (White people killed a lot of children who were at the school) which made them have no other choice then start using weapons. That's when Nelson had to join SACP (South Africa Communist Party) so he could get the resources, and help them keep Africa protected! So I think Nelson did his best and he did make peace for the blacks; he and ANC did it.

This is exactly what we should know. There is no future without history. This is better than reading a book.

Do any of you actually live in South Africa? Mandela was actually a terrorist who bombed buildings and encouraged violence. There were a lot of black people killed in his so-called peaceful demonstrations.

Do you know that during his time in prison, the white president went to him with an offer to be set free if Mandela agreed to stop the violence. Mandela never agreed to stop.

For all the people commenting about where the word 'Apartheid' originated from, you're missing the point. This isn't about the 'Dutch' or the 'English' people. It's sbout South Africa.

I think apartheid is stupid! Why should people be judged by their color of their skin? People should be judged for who they are inside. I would like to see anyone disagree with me.

I love your web site and I want to learn about South Africa. My main interest is in Kenya and the Asolo tribe, because this where my husband is from.

The world should be celebrating apartheid. Although the was much suffering to get to where we are, there must be labor pains for any birth, and the birth of freedom is not exempt. However, it is a birth that should be remembered, therefore requiring much pre-birth agony.

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@157: You are right that it isn't afrikaans, but it isn't dutch either. it is partly english and partly dutch.

I don't intend to be rude or something, but the word 'apartheid' isn't created by Africans. It was created by the Dutch.

What was africa like after this even took place?

what happened when it ended?

This really helped me with my literature essay on Nelson Mandela!

For whoever was asking about how many people were white at the time of Aparthied, compared to who was not:

There were: 4.8 million white people; 24 million black people; 0.9 million of Asian origin; 2.8 million of mixed race.

These are actual numbers, found in the book "South Africa Since 1948" written by Jean Hayward and published in 1989 Wayland (publishers) Ltd.

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Why was apartheid introduced? What was the reasoning behind separating every race into its own area?

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It started in 1948 and ended in 1994. A year before my birthday!

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how has apartheid affected women in africa?

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besides the heartbreaking injustices, it's a real pity to see a beautiful, diverse and rich continent like africa being torn apart by war, disease and poverty.

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why was the apartheid introduced?

I'd love to hear peoples opinion of apartheid and discrimination in South Africa. Thanks.

Why did this happen?

How much of the population was white and how much was not, at the time?

Isn't it ironic now, if we look back at the achievements of that National Party, how it dwarfs that the ANC... sure their human rights record was bad. But their economic and technological achievements...of 4 million people... phenomenal.

Who were the drivers behind the movement? It wasn't just the "Nationalist Party," it was certain specific people who had specific roles.

What are measures to deal with apartheid?