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Pushed out of their homes
White settlers from the Netherlands arrived in South Africa in the mid17th century, forcing the occupants of South Africa out of their land or using them as laborers. -
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The British Rule
The British ruled the people of Africa. -
Split in four
Southern Africa was separated into four territories in the end of the 19th century, two of which were under British rule and the other two in the hands of the Afrikaners. -
African Unity
One of the first political organizations in Africa opposed to the apartheid was Lubumba Yama Afrika, which believed that the only way to fight the Whites was through African unity. -
Revolted
The Dutch descendants, also known as the Boers or Afrikaners, revolted against the British in the Anglo-Boer war of 1899-1902, trying to claim the two other colonies. -
British Rule
They did not succeed and British rule was established in all four colonies -
Controled
By the 20th century, the British controlled most of northeast, east, west, center, and South Africa, and the French controlled most of northwest Africa. -
Hand over
By 1910, the four colonies were joined together under the Act of the Union, and the British handed the administration of the country over to the White locals. -
Elected
The apartheid was a creation of three hundred and seventeen laws by Dr. D.F. Malan’s nationalist party, which was elected in 1948. Even before 1948,the Nationalist Party feared the influx of Africans into White towns, and therefore restricted the areas in which they could live. -
ANC
Nelson Mandela became involved with the ANC, African National Congress during the peak of the Second World War. Along with sixty other members, the mission of the ANC was to turn the group into a mass movement. By 1952, Mandela was elected National Volunteer-in-Chief. His job was to travel around the country, organizing resistance against discrimination -
ANC outlawed
After the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, the ANC was outlawed. -
Attention
Apartheid did not receive any international attention when the laws were first created in 1948. The rise of the civil rights movement in the United States and the revolt of colonial rule in Asia and Africa drew attention to the situation in South Africa -
Education
Apartheid influenced the lives of all those residing in South Africa – including the children. Schooling was separated for all the races. Whites, Indians, Colored, and Africans, attended different schools, except in some rare cases where Indian and African children were sent to the same school due to a lack of number in students. -
Taking action
other ways in which action was taken was by denying South African airways from landing in their countries, breaking off diplomatic relations with the government of South Africa, and boycotting all South African goods and refraining from exporting goods -
End
Apartheid finally came to an end in 1990 when president F.W. de Klerk announced a formal end to the apartheid. By 1991, all apartheid laws were repealed.