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Life under apartheid

A young black man, just trying to get home, was thrown into the back of a police van and taken to jail despite the indignity of presenting a white police officer valid identity papers. The officer crumpled the pass at the man's feet and took him to jail anyway.Thaabo Moorsi, "severely tortured and detained." Soyisile Douse, "shot dead by policemen."Families separated. Races relocated.This was apartheid.For many too young or too distant to remember, apartheid is little more than a distant historical fact, a system of forced segregation to learn about in history class,replica van cleef style necklace, to condemn and to move on.A history of apartheidThough white Europeans had long ruled in South Africa, the formal system of apartheid came into existence after World War II.The country's National Party led by the descendants of European settlers known as Afrikaners ushered it into existence after sweeping into power on a campaign calling for stricter racial controls amid the heavy inflow of blacks into South African cities.Between 1949 and 1953, South African lawmakers passed a series of increasingly oppressive laws,replica van cleef and arpels necklace sale, beginning with prohibitions on blacks and whites marrying in 1949 and culminating with laws dividing the population by race, reserving the best public facilities for whites and creating a separate, and inferior, education system for blacks.One of the laws, the Group Areas Act, forced blacks, Indians,replica vintage alhambra necklace, Asians and people of mixed heritage to live in separate areas, sometimes dividing families.Blacks had to live in often barren tribal homelands or townships near cities,replica alhambra necklace, often in polluted industrial areas. Whites got the best agricultural areas, the choicest city addresses.

The Wall

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