South Africa Racism
Imagine having to carry an ID and obeying strict rules about where you can go and what you can do based on the color of your skin. Well in Apartheid South Africa which lasted from 1948 - 1994 this was the case for Black people in South Africa.
Hi, my name is Cody. I am here today to talk to you about What Apartheid was like for black people, how it affected their lives and how great it was when Nelson Mandela got rid of it and what we can learn from having
a great leader likes him.
After the 2nd World War South Africa created the Land Acts which gave 80% of the land to White South Africans and forced the black people to be restricted from parts of their own country. From 1948- 1994 there were around 150 apartheid laws put in place to enforce these Land Acts and protect the white South African ownership. Most laws prohibited black people from entering urban areas without immediately finding a job. They were not allowed to walk around the streets without carrying a book to prove they had a job. Another rule is Black, colored, and mixed people were not allowed to marry white people.
Let's talk about the rules of schooling in the apartheid. The schooling industry was unfair like most of the apartheid, children of colored - mixed race, would
often not get as much as a quarter of the learning that white children at that time did. And on top of all that, they were forced into migrant labor at the young age of 13. But in the end, there was resistance to these insane laws. The apartheid protests were brutal, often led by black students and youth, and met with severe repression.
Moving on I'm going to talk about the amazing people that helped stop the apartheid, some of them are Malcolm x, Nelson Mandela, and Walter Sisulu. In this presentation I am going to talk about Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, and on May 10 in 1994 he was elected president of South Africa. And died on the 5th of December 2013. He was a big role model for many youths and people of all ages in south Africa because he gave them hope that this would end and could live happier and better lives by ending the apartheid. A big reason that Nelson Mandela was elected president was because he was put in prison for 27 years because he was believing in his rights and while he was in prison he wrote a book called “long walk to freedom” this book is about the 1994 autobiography of Nelson Mandela, detailing his ascent from an anti-apartheid activist and Robben Island-jailed terrorist, to ANC leader and a cultural icon. Goes through his story and how everyone should belive in there rights no matter what. A quote from Nelson Mandela “Racism must be opposed by all means that humanity has at its disposal.” bacicly he its something we need to fight with all we have and stop excluding people of a different race.
Ways we can avoid using racism each day. There are many many ways but a realy big one is stop pointing the gun at certan people, Meaning stop saying “ omg a black person just did that” instead say there is a person doing that or there was a person who did that or we can literally stop pointing the gun at black people when its is not nessasry but the reason they do is that alsot of people think that they have made a reputation for them selfs to do iligle stuff and people dont stop to actually talk and find out who this person in by giving them a chance before you take some ones life. People need to stop putting people in categories we are all human we are all the same we should not be putting people in these positions just because if their skin. Thank you for listening.