apartheid

Apartheid; the word alone sends a shiver down the spines of the repressed African community. Apartheid represents a mordant period in the history of South Africa, when the policy of segregation and political and economic discriminatiagainst non-European groups in the Republic of South Africa. he purpose is to educate the entire community not only to act against apartheid now, but to learn from the struggle against apartheid in order to help build a world in …

…police killed a boy, the protests spread throughout the country. The government once again reacted brutally--killing over the next months 575 people. The date of the "Soweto Uprising" is now recognized in South Africa as National Youth Day. Soweto was another dramatic turning point. But it took 14 more years--years of repression, resistance, and violence, but no widespread civil war--before the transition to majoirty rule and democracy began. The transition began with President de Klerk's election in 1990.