Category: Apartheid

Language is one of the primary and essential aspects of life. Besides, language is a powerful tool that can do great things. Both verbal and nonverbal language elements serve as a critical, authoritative mechanism to people. At least people need to use language for communication, identity, and cultural distinction. However, language is commonly misused to…

This research project has analysed the application of Israeli practices towards non-Jews, mainly Palestinians, both within its domestic borders, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Using the premise of international bodies such as the 1973 Apartheid Convention and the 2002 Rome Statute, a comparison has been drawn with the architect of apartheid, South Africa. Both states…

The Apartheid Museum guides its visitors through South Africas dark history of institutionalized racial segregation from 1948 – 1994, the violence that plagued its opression, the activists who battled the regime and ultimately the onward journey to democracy. Upon entering, each visitor receives a card classifying them on racial grounds (similar to the passbooks black…

A wide range of scholarship has drawn on the applicability of the apartheid analysis in the Israel/Palestine context. While some literature, such as Ben Whites Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide (2009), identify exact similarities with South Africa, most of the discourse recognizes apartheid as a legal definition related to the governance of settler-colonial states (Falk,…

The term Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning separateness and is the name for the system of racial segregation that governed South Africa for nearly 50 years, where rules were put in place to protect the domination of the white South Africans over the non white South Africans in every aspect of life. The Afrikaans…

Early Life Nelson Mandela was born on July 18th 1918 at Mvezo, a village near the banks of river Mbashe in the district of Umata. He was given the name Rolihlahla, which in the Xhosa language means troublemaker. Although his relatives associated his name with the problems he caused, he never believed that a name…

Hendricks Verwoerd, a Dutch-born South African politician sociologist, journalist, and psychologist. Psychologists study the mind and they seek to understand thoughts, emotions, and feelings. The mind is a powerful weapon that he and other architects of apartheid used to the system came with a long-lasting effect. From 1948 To date we see apartheid running its…

The Republic of South Africa, is a nation located at the Southern most tip of the Continent . It has a population of fifty seven million making it the twenty fourth most populated nation in the world covering an area of 1.22 milion square miles. A majority of its population belonging to Sub-Saharan African ancestry.The…

South Africa, a nation once deeply divided by apartheid, is now trying to mend its wounds by uniting under the banners of cosmopolitanism and nationalism. South Africas vital interest lies in the need to strengthen its national identity whilst recognizing its role in contributing to the cosmopolitan ideal of Ubuntu, specifically on the African continent.…

A group of people living in a specific territory sharing the common geographical, cultural, economic, and political landscapes is called a nation. So people living in that space must have the sense of being one nation one people that work for the common goals of the nation and stand together to fight against any kind…