Apartheid in South Africa: Raw Documentary Footage (1957 Film)

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Apartheid was a system of legal racial segregation enforced by the National Party government of South Africa between 1948 and 1993, under which the rights of the majority 'non-white' inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and minority rule by white people was maintained. The government of South Africa also practiced the same discriminatory policies while occupying South West Africa, known after 1966 as Namibia.

Racial segregation in South Africa began in colonial times. However, apartheid as an official policy was introduced following the general election of 1948. New legislation classified inhabitants into racial groups ("black", "white", "coloured", and "Indian"), and residential areas were segregated, sometimes by means of forced removals. From 1958, black people were deprived of their citizenship, legally becoming citizens of one of ten tribally based self-governing homelands called bantustans, four of which became nominally independent states. The government segregated education, medical care, and other public services, and provided black people with services inferior to those of white people.

Apartheid sparked significant internal resistance and violence as well as a long trade embargo against South Africa. Since the 1980s, a series of popular uprisings and protests were met with the banning of opposition and imprisoning of anti-apartheid leaders. As unrest spread and became more violent, state organizations responded with increasing repression and state-sponsored violence.

Reforms to apartheid in the 1980s failed to quell the mounting opposition, and in 1990 President Frederik Willem de Klerk began negotiations to end apartheid, culminating in multi-racial democratic elections in 1994, which were won by the African National Congress under Nelson Mandela. The vestiges of apartheid still shape South African politics and society.

Internal resistance to the apartheid system in South Africa came from several sectors of society and saw the creation of organisations dedicated variously to peaceful protests, passive resistance and armed insurrection. It came from both black activists like Steve Biko and Desmond Tutu as well as white activists like Harry Schwarz, Joe Slovo and Trevor Huddleston.

A bantustan (also known as black African homeland or simply homeland) was a territory set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia), as part of the policy of apartheid. Ten bantustans were established in South Africa, and ten in neighbouring South-West Africa (then under South African administration), for the purpose of concentrating the members of designated ethnic groups, thus making each of those territories ethnically homogeneous as the basis for creating "autonomous" nation states for South Africa's different black ethnic groups.

The term was first used in the late 1940s, and was coined from 'Bantu' (meaning 'people' in some of the Bantu languages) and '-stan' (a suffix meaning 'land' in the Persian language). It was regarded as a disparaging term by some critics of the apartheid-era government's 'homelands' (from Afrikaans tuisland). The word 'bantustan', today, is often used in a pejorative sense when describing a region that lacks any real legitimacy, consists of several unconnected enclaves, and/or emerges from national or international gerrymandering.

Some of the bantustans received independence. In South Africa, Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda, and Ciskei (the so-called TBVC states) were declared independent, while others (like KwaZulu, Lebowa, and QwaQwa), received partial autonomy, but were never granted independence. In South-West Africa, Ovamboland, Kavangoland, and East Caprivi were granted self-determination. The condition of sovereign independent states was not recognised outside of South Africa.

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[SnipeRRiffle1337]

Whites stop talking shit about S.A is falling and corruption increasing! Do you seriously think apartheid is right! Why did you have to come to my beautiful country and bring racism, slavey hate, violence and all that shit! do you want to take over the whole world ffs!? You always come with your ignorant shit! Apartheid wasn't funny at all or better either. You know the world cup 2010 showed that the rainbow nation are united!! If you don't accept it then get the fuck out of S.A!!!!

[67Zaka]

@LastRideHome Me to. I have a exam test...

[LastRideHome]

I am doing a history thing on it for school and you honestly dont know how much this has helped me.

all i can say is thank you

[MrPassdamike]

@Zwelibataire go watch my vidio called "anonymis message to the south african" ppl it is in my favorits and you will have a better understanding of what im tryng to say

[MrPassdamike]

@Zwelibataire obviously i do not support the apartheid or what it was trying to do to the people, but i encorage the ppl of south africa to not sit back as if to say "ok the aparthied is over now everything is ok" when there is still huge room for improovement, we must stand up to the current ANC and stop thir corruption and theft of the tax payers money! bring the old morrils of Madiba,mr Sisulu back to this country bring what they tried to fight for to life!

[MrPassdamike]

@Zwelibataire so when you say life is better now for the majority i ask you how how ?

there is still only a minority of ppl living the good life here it is the ANC and their pals,anglo gold and the oppinhimers! ! if you do not belong to one of these groups you have no say in this countrys future or a peice of what it has to offer! i speak on behalf of all south africans when i say WE DEMAND a less corupt government, harsher punishments for criminals and better hospitals and better education

[MrPassdamike]

@Zwelibataire and the reason for the crime rate elevation (besides the banning of the death penalty) is because of the increase of the black and WHITE unemployment, the chainge in government has not chainged the levels of living for the black MAJORITY it is a small number of ANC members and their buddies who have benifited from the power shift, but moste of the ANC veterans (the common soldgers) are still living in the shacks they fought to get out of,

[MrPassdamike]

@Zwelibataire i also said "the crime rate has elevated beyond comprehension" this is a fact the old apartheid system had a death penalty and harsher sentinces for ALL who committed crime yes they sepparated them by race but the criminals in those days were way to scared to commit the crimes they do today,

[Zwelibataire]

@MrPassdamike Surely,you do not believe your own words. If you do, then you need to think more carefully about the accuracy of your "facts".Life may have been better in those days for a minority of the population than it is now, but it certainly was not better for the majority. After all, apartheid sought to create first-world standards for a tiny minority,at the expense of the majority. It is quite logical, methinks. Show us some numbers. Per capita figures - not wild statements.

[MrPassdamike]

it sadens me to say that south africa was in a more stable state in those days than what it is in today, the black unemployment rate is way higher now than what it was back then, the black poverty rate has worsened since then, the crime rate has elevated beyond comprehension, and south africans of all races are bein opressed, our standards of living have droped infact i have heared alot of the older ppl (black and white) saying life was infact better in those days, so i ask are we really free