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CIA Archives: Apartheid in South Africa - Raw Documentary Footage (1957)

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DVD: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Y272LC/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=d...

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Apartheid was a system of legal racial segregation enforced by the National Party government of South Africa between 1948 and 1994, 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 1970, 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, beaches, 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 1950s, 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.

South Africa had a policy of attacking guerrilla-bases and safe houses of the ANC, PAC and SWAPO in neighboring countries beginning in the early 1980s. These attacks were in retaliation for acts of terror such as bomb explosions, massacres and guerrilla actions (like sabotage) by ANC, PAC and SWAPO guerrillas in South Africa and Namibia. The country also aided organisations in surrounding countries who were actively combating the spread of communism in southern Africa. The results of these policies included: * Support for anti-government guerrilla groups such as UNITA in Angola and RENAMO in Mozambique * South African Defence Force (SADF; now the South African National Defence Force; SANDF) hit-squad raids into front-line states. Bombing raids were also conducted into neighbouring states. Air and commando raids into Zimbabwe, Zambia and Botswana occurred the same day, against selective ANC targets. * An assassination attempt on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on December 18, 1981. * A full-scale invasion of Angola: this was partly in support of UNITA, but was also an attempt to strike at SWAPO bases. * Bomb attacks in Lesotho. * Kidnapping of refugees and ANC members in Swaziland by security services. * An unsuccessful South African organised coup in the Seychelles on November 25, 1981. * Targeting of exiled ANC leaders abroad: Joe Slovo's wife Ruth First was killed by a parcel bomb in Maputo, and 'death squads' of the Civil Cooperation Bureau and the Directorate of Military Intelligence attempted to carry out assassinations on ANC targets in Brussels, Paris, Stockholm and London.

In 1984, Mozambican president Samora Machel signed the Nkomati Accord with South Africa's president P.W. Botha, in an attempt to rebuild Mozambique's economy. South Africa agreed to cease supporting anti-government forces, while the MK was prohibited from operating in Mozambique. This was a setback for the ANC. Two years later, President Machel was killed in an air crash in mountainous terrain in South Africa near the Mozambican border after returning from a meeting in Zambia. South Africa was accused by the Mozambican government and U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz of continuing its aid to RENAMO and having caused the accident by using a false radio navigation beacon to lure the aircraft into crashing. This conspiracy theory was never proven and is still a subject of some controversy, despite the South African Margo Commission finding that the crash was an accident. A Soviet delegation that did not participate in the investigation issued a minority report implicating South Africa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid_South_Africa

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  • Just another propaganda film by the CIA. There is the story the media wants to create, the truth & the agenda by the CIA...Always.

  • The Afrikaans subtitles are fucking crap lol

  • Its a shame we have a new apartheid going on and no one cares or are intellectual enough to see beyond lying zionist media.

  • @Gnubnub I dont think he is alive anymore bro, this is 55 years ago dude. Get over yourself.

  • Material of propaganda!!!

  • This documentary are false. As other documentary of CIA.

  • Too bad no one in South Africa apartheid back then said it would cease when Communism Collapses

  • Favorite Quote indicitive of how wrong one side was....horribly, horriby wrong: "I don't think that in the future (blacks) will set up a regime which will discriminate...and drive whites into the sea...."

  • @MMM222012 My parents grew up in Apartheid SA.  Don't kid yourself.

  • This is just propoganda where America tried to draw attention away from Themselfs. I saw One of these gu's pay someone in onother movie to get food out of a bin so that they can film it. How Pethetic? They did alot more attrosities against black people than we could amagine.

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