Apartheid and South African Human Rights Violations
- All-white National Party comes to power in 1948
- Apartheid (separate or apart) was their main agenda
- A doctrine of white supremacy and separate development
- Non-whites South Africans could no longer:
- Marry outside of their own race
- Choose where to live
- Travel where they liked
- The whites made up 15% of the population yet owned 87% of the land
- Non-whites were forced to live on Bantustans
- Enforced by the army and police force
Quote
"In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights."- Desmond Tutu
Subjective Question
Why were the All-White National Party put into power ?
Summary
An All-white national party came into power in South Africa and banned non whites from things such as marriage between races, living in certain places and where they could travel to. Although they only made up 15% of the population they owned 87% of the land.