Twentieth Century History of South Africa

In both countries, the schism between Africans and their government worsened. To illustrate: “[The Emancipation Proclamation] ended [slavery] . . . , but blacks . . . had more in common with African-American slaves . . . than with the [Caucasian businessmen]” (Bausum 2012, 19). For instance, Congress passed the discriminatory Jim Crow Laws – in order to establish a hierarchy based on “the plantation mentality” (Bausum 2012, 14). For South Africans, the National Party (the Nats) in 1948, made apartheid the official law. Both forms of segregation continued the cycle of poverty for coloured people and “ensured [that Caucasians had better quality education], hospitals, and other public services” (Rose 2011, 12). For example, African-American garbage men’s insufficient salary “was based on their garbage routes” rather than an hourly wage (Bausum 2012, 14). Similarly, black South African staff received inadequate pay and the law outlawed strikes and the formation of unions.

There were many important positive effects. First of all, there was a huge advance in agriculture. Early, when the Dutch settled in South Africa, they taught South Africans new farming techniques that would increase their production. The Dutch, being specialized in farming, introduced new farming tools to South Africans. The discovery of gold helped the British use gold efficiently as they made different kinds of jewelry which increased the economy enormously. The British bought many African slaves to work in the mining industry but this helped them learn new techniques that would increase their production and resources. The British has actually improved the education in South Africa. Nowadays, we see British systems in South Africa that are still helping South Africans to become successful in their lives. The employment rate is increasing and increasing. On the other hand, there were also negative impacts. The main negative impact is racial discrimination. The starting of feuds between blacks and whites in the colonization of South Africa are still happening today in South Africa. Economic exploitation is also a negative impact. The British are still taking goods and resources from South

In the 1600s, European settlers landed in South Africa and had overwhelming success for a few reasons. The first, and probably most important, element is the fact that South Africa’s geography was very

As a result of racial segregation, resistance from coloured people in both the United States and South Africa escalated. Furthermore, the history of the African civil rights movement validated: “Nationalism has been tested in the people’s struggles . . . and [proved to be] the only antidote against foreign rule and modern imperialism” (Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom 2008, 156) . By comparing and contrasting the American Jim Crow Laws and South African apartheid, we have evidence that both nations’ constitutions led to discrimination, activism, reform and reconciliation.

During the period of Apartheid in South Africa between 1948 and 1994 the reactions of the South African citizens towards the legal separation of races varied depending on race, ideals and time period. After gold and diamonds were fud inSouthAfrica both the dutch and British wanted the land to themselves, leading to the Boer War from which the Dutch farmers emerged victorious. Following the Boer War and the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, the Dutch Boers gained control over the majority of the land in the previously British Cape Colony along with the settlements they had already built, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Blacks in South Africa made up about eighty percent of the population but only lived on ten percent of

In the 1830s, the British Government began to look to South Africa for the abundant gold and diamond in the area, as well as, with the hopes of gaining control of the most strategic port and route to trade with India. The British acted quickly, and started to take control of the cape of South Africa. In 1833, they emancipated the Afrikaners’ slaves, created more taxes, and auctioned off previously communal land. This caused great rage within the Boer community. The Boers were Dutch and Huguenot people that migrated to South Africa in the late 17th century (Great Trek). Starting in 1835, the Boers left their homeland with the goal of starting a new life free from British rule. The majority of the migrants left from the Eastern frontier of South

South Africa has diamonds and gold. The Boers settled in Africa long before the British came there to colonize. The Boers were Dutch and come over to Africa in 1652. The Boers and the British did not agree with British policies including land and slaves. The Boers had no where to go but north. Which later became known as the Great Trek. When they were heading north they got in fierce battles with the Zulu and many other African groups as they were attempting to take land. The Boers didn't want outsiders coming in when gold was discovered. The Boers did t want any of the people coming to seeks fortune to gain any political rights. People tried to rebel against the Boers and failed. The British were blamed, and the tension was greater than ever.

Local Zulu tribes did not accept the role of cane cutters in this location, so indentured workers were brought from India

With expansionism, which started in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labor Model. This was the first model of expansionism got by the Dutch 1652 and hence sent out from the Western Cape to the Afrikaner Republics of the Orange Free State and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. Numerous South Africans are the relatives of slaves conveyed to the Cape Colony from 1653 until 1822. The progressions created on African social orders by the inconvenience of European pilgrim guideline happened one after another. Indeed, it was the rate with which change happened that set the pioneer time separated from before periods in South Africa. Obviously, not all social orders were similarly changed. Some opposed the powers of pilgrim interruption,

The national party achieved power in South Africa in 1948 the government, usually comprised on “white people”, and racially segregated the country by a policy under the Apartheid legislation system. With this new policy in place the black South African people were forced to live segregated from the white people and use separate public facilities. There were many attempts to overthrow the Apartheid regime, it persisted to control for almost 50 years.

They created and enforced the policies for ‘native segregation’. They believed in territorial segregation being a humane way of racial domination in southern Africa, rather than establishing ‘native reserves’ which could interfere with their access to African labor (109-110). In 1910, the British imperial authorities segregated the blacks from whites, making it clear that there is separate and unequal segregation, leading to the creation of Apartheid. In the southern United States, segregation was less direct than in South Africa. In southern United States the Africans are considered the “white man’s burden” (110). White people victimized the blacks, participated in hate crimes and brutality, which was even worse than South Africa. White supremacy in America originated from the slave trade, while South Africa’s beliefs and treatment towards white supremacy was established through colonizing the region (111). The treatment and laws towards black people in South Africa in present day have now changed. Black people have now obtained leadership positions in the government. These people try in all their efforts to aid the people affected by three centuries worth of deprivation, expropriation, and exploitation, but there continues to be antisocial behaviors towards the black community (143). In the 1920s, American working-class whites’ jobs were protected and given security in preventing competition against the African Americans. In 1924, new laws were passed including the ‘industrial color bars’ and ‘civilized labor’, which provided whites with exclusive access to skilled and desirable jobs

At the point when the Period of Dominion started in 1875, it affected Africa from multiple points of view. No place was the opposition for provinces more extraordinary than in Africa. Europeans followed North and South Africa part up the mainland. Egypt and Sudan were assumed control by England to acquire the Suez Trench. Colonialism added to Africa's economy and transformed it into a landmass of provinces.

Throughout the 19th century, after Great Britain conquered the Cape of Good Hope in 1814 and expanded its territory in Southern Africa, there was tension between the British settlers and the Dutch-descended population which were called Afrikaners or Boers. This resulted in the Afrikaner migration called the Great Trek, which was from 1835 to 1843, and the establishment of the Afrikaner republics. These republics were called Natal, Orange Free State, and the South African Republic. Natal became a British colony in 1843, but the Transvaal

Around 1652, the Dutch East India Company created a settlement on the cape, leading to several other indigenous peoples settling in the area as well . This tactic nearly parallels with the colonization beginning throughout the rest of the world. White supremacy gradually took over South Africa as more and more of them colonized the country, and worked their way into government positions. The English pushed the natives out and eventually did not care about race, merely about the money that came from labor . The Land Act of 1913, was believed to be the initial beginning of the apartheid laws. This act initiated by white supremacists marked the first major downfall of segregation for the colored and Indian peoples of South Africa. The Afrikans were essentially “divided into nine nations” and approximately 93% of the land was reserved for the white people. 2/3 of the population of South Africa at the time was considered African, or native people, and these people were all banned from “freely buying land”, making conditions very harsh, and malnutrition was extremely common . Urbanization occurred with white people in power simply increasing the segregation between races. Africans continued to live and work in absolutely terrible conditions. They often resided in the outskirts of cities in derisory housing, with poor sanitation, were lucky to have a bit of electricity, and had awful people to manage their workplace. The

From the 17th century until the early 1900’s, European countries were fighting to get tracks of land across Africa. Although South Africa was unified by Great Britain in 1910, the African National Congress was formed two years later. It was only on Dec 11, 1931 after World War II when Britain gave South Africa its’ independence as a country. For the first sixty years after South Africa was claimed independent, white minority rulers dominated the country. South Africa is now an independent Nation but is still a member of the British Commonwealth.