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Apartheid - South Africa

Apartheid is a policy against discrimination of economic, political, and racial segregation

for the groups that comprised of non-Europeans in South Africa. During this apartheid period,

individuals divided themselves into four groups of race, and the law separated the four groups of

race. The apartheid law could allow the whites in South Africa to access some areas that the

blacks in South Africa were denied not to access. The system was then applied to help deny the

human rights that were basic to every person to the black individuals living in South Africa by

then (1948-1994). Extramarital sex, according to the Act of Immorality, was forbidden between

the black and white individuals, according to the skin color of individuals’ beaches and parks got

to be separated between the whites and non-whites, the Act of prohibition about mixed

marriages, the marriage that can result between other races and the whites got to be forbidden

(Barbarin et al. 2013).

The cooperation between the dominant groups and the minority groups in South Africa is

highly valued as it helps in the successful handling of the social problems in South Africa

recently; this is because the minority rights aim and serves in bringing together all the
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community members, thus balancing of the enjoyment related to the human rights. The minority

groups also qualify and result in an equal contribution to the running of the South African

government appropriately. The minority groups have a greater influence that involves an

individual shift in personal opinion, the influence of the civil privileges movement found in the

United States. The non-apartheid rule in South Africa, when implemented for the running of the

South African government, then handling of social problems in South Africa, is checked and

dealt with (Marger 2015).

South Africa becomes unsustainable politically in governing some country that works for

a population that is small in a portion only when it began its transition in 1990 from apartheid

while the U.S. is at the cusp of attaining the milestone. The development of South Africa

indicates a long conflict term from the indigenous black population and the white settlers. At the

same time, the U.S. history of race involves enslaved Black people, Asian immigrants,

indigenous Native Americans, and the black slave descendants for achieving equality for both

the population (Walker et al. 2003).

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Works Cited

Barbarin, Oscar A., and Linda M. Richter. Mandela's children: Growing up in post-

apartheid South Africa. Routledge, 2013.

Marger, Martin. Race and Ethnic Relations: American and Global Perspectives. Cengage

Learning, 2015 (textbook).

Walker, Vanessa Siddle, and Kim Nesta Archung. "The segregated schooling of Blacks

in the southern United States and South Africa." Comparative Education Review 47.1 (2003):

21-40.
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