During apartheid history was utilised by the state to justify white supremacy. Yet history was also an area where the intellectual battle against apartheid wasKros, CynthiaWilkins, DavidSocial Science Electronic Publishing
Racial segregation and white supremacy had become central aspects of South African policy long before apartheid began. The controversial1913 Land Act, passed three years after South Africa gained its independence, marked the beginning of territorial segregation by forcing Black Africans to live in reserv...
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In more than eighty contributions by various authors, this anthology of South African voices provides many perspectives on the country's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, its history and the challenges to its future, particularly violence, inequality, and racial discrimination. ...
Apartheid(Afrikaans: “apartness”) is the name of the policy that governed relations between the white minority and the nonwhite majority ofSouth Africaduring the 20th century. Although racial segregation had long been in practice there, the apartheid name was first used about 1948 to describe the...
--Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, South African minister for native affairs (prime minister from 1958 to 66), speaking about his government's education policies in the 1950s. As quoted in Apartheid - A History by Brian Lapping, 1987. "I have not consulted the African people on the language issue and...