Established in 1948 under the racialist National Party, apartheid not only meant separate and inferior public services, benches and building entrances for non-whites. It also stripped South African blacks of their citizenship (placing them into tribally-based bantustans instead) and abolished all non-white political representation.
Nelson Mandela was a key anti-apartheid activist,
leading defiance campaigns and working as a lawyer. He was arrested in 1962, and given a life sentence for conspiracy to overthrow the government. His imprisonment did little to quell resistance. After years of violent unrest at home and sanctions abroad, the National Party began apartheid reform in the 1980s. The system was dismantled in 1990, the same year then-president F. W. de Klerk released Mandela from prison. Mandela went on to serve as president for one
term in 1994. Moving South Africa past its apartheid culture has not been easy. The country still wrestles with significant racial issues . But it took some of its most important steps forward thanks to Mandela, a feat that many.South Africans and foreign dignitaries have gathered to
honor today at Johannesburg's National Stadium.

Below,Associated Press photographs that show what life looked like in South Africa during the decades under apartheid:

"No to Xenophobia"


▶ Black South Africans jam a road in Cape Town, March 30, 1960, on their way to demonstrate in front of a police station in protest against the jailing of their leaders. Police arrested more than 100 leaders of political parties opposed to the government's racial policies in a series of pre-dawn raids.


▶ Black South Africans line up at the counter at a government office to get their new passbooks in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 7, 1960. Hundreds of blacks, who had publicly burned their passes during recent campaign of defiance against the Apartheid government, picked up new passes required by all black South Africans to return to work.


▶ Children sit on bench along waterfront in Durban, a big modern city on the Indian Ocean, May 27, 1960. Park benches like this are reserved for whites only. South African natives are not permitted to use them.


▶ This is a photograph of a butcher shop in Johannesburg, South Africa, taken in May, 1965. They advertise second grade meat, which is sold at a lesser price, bought mostly by the black Africans and servants.

I love transformation
I hate "change"

▶ This is a photo of the entrance to the Zoological Gardens in Johannesburg, South Africa, in June 1965. Under Apartheid law, separate entrances are designated for whites and non-whites.


▶ A white baby is bottle-fed by her African nanny as her brotherplays behind the nanny's only seat in an all-white park in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 18, 1966.


▶ This is a photo of a doubledeck bus marked "Slegs vir nie Blankes," or Non-Europeans Only in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1973. Under Apartheid law, blacks and whites must ride on separate buses.


▶ Beach post: Apartheid is the reason for the whole South African disaster. No doubt: the apartheid policy is responsible for the racial tensions. The black race is excluded from a lot of places, e.g. at the bayside like indicated on this sign-post.

austinesteve:

The hustle is really hard, ride on bro

Aitee1:

The hustle is really hard, ride on bro

. I need mor plots of land 4 us

austinesteve:





. I need mor plots of land 4 us

I see more grease to your elbow then!

Unfortunately, whites are not the only race that commited acts of segregation against other races. Blacks have now joined the band wagon of differential treatment and racism against their own fellow blacks.

▶ Black youths race through the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa on Thursday, September 23, 1976, fleeting police who fired shots to break up demonstrations against the government by roving mobs. In close it is a helmeted policeman, right, to have lost a leg of his action.



▶ A black squatter carries an oil drum from what remains of the Modderdam squatter's camp on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa on Wednesday, August 10, 1977, after government bulldozers moved in to clear the area. Black squatters, angry at being forced from their homes, set some 200 shanties ablaze.


▶ Apartheid - Pictures made in Johannesburg, South Africa, on a typical Saturday morning in a market near the main railway terminal linking with the black African township of Soweto. The AP-Photo shows a black woman servant taking charge of a young white child while the little girl's parents are working.


▶ Police take cover as Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters flee as they are fired upon by unidentified gunmen, in this March 28, 1994 file photo in Johannesburg. Nine IFP supporters were later killed outside the African National Congress (ANC) headquarters as gunmen from the building fired on protesters marching past the building. The IFP are opposed to next month's all-race election and had called for a day of protest in the city.


source1: http://www.citylab.com/politics/2013/12/life-apartheid-era-south-africa/7821/

▶ Sign designating a public space as "for use by white persons".


▶ Sign reserving a Natal beach "for the sole use of members of the white race group", in English,
Afrikaans , and Zulu.


▶ Bench reserved for "non-whites only" outside a public building in Cape Town.


Source2: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid

▶ The notorious police of the apartheid regime carry out the Sharpeville massacre, in which a mass protest against the pass laws was brutally put down and 69 people killed, March 21, 1960.


▶ The famous Soweto uprising of youth and students which began on June 16, 1976, led to a renewed wave of resistanceamongst black South Africans.


▶ Nelson Mandela (second from right) of the ANC Youth League and Dr. Yusuf Dadoo of the Transvaal Indian Congress address a public forum on the steps of Johannesburg City Hall, 1945.



Source 3: http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmlw2013/W43048.HTM

Those days white idiots sef go com person country dey do as dem but if na deir country dem go put for tight edge....But honestly Speaking RACISM has come to stay. Black people don suffer too much of all dis shytes.....Now South Africa don carry deir own Xenophobia come mmmtttccchhhew!!! May God continue to protect our Everywhere we go. Amen

The once white slaves now forming nonsense for us...GOD punish all of una

▶ Prisoners Chipping Stones on Robben Island under Apartheid.


▶ Police Checking Passbooks under Apartheid.


▶ Act, 1952, required all Africans to carry a pass-book, similar to a passport. The pass-book contained all personalinformation, such as name, photograph of holder, fingerprints, and also gave a detailed explanation on where a person could be employed, and their performance at work. If Africans did not obey the rules, they were kicked out from the area, and their crime would be reported in their pass-books. The penalty for not carrying the book at all times was also severe, ranging from imprisonment and fines, to a torturous death.


▶ A passbook.



Source 4: http://espressostalinist.com/genocide/apartheid-south-africa/

▶ Some 69 black South Africans were killed when police opened fire on demonstrators protesting the Apartheid pass system on March 20, 1960.


▶ 1960: On 21 March 1960, more than 5,000 people offered themselves up for arrest at the Sharpeville police station for not carrying their pass books. Police panicked and opened fire, killing 69.


▶ A township resident confronts a policeman in South Africa in 1992. 'The great mass of whites did nothing [to oppose apartheid], instead perhaps enjoying their privileged lifestyle.'




Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/nelson-mandela/8288704/Nelson-Mandela-South-Africans-know-their-country-is-free-because-he-lived.html



http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/20/nazi-germany-apartheid-south-africa-nelson-mandela#img-1

Soo soo touching, it pains me a lot to see that these fools with that their king (akiolu zwelithini) is fighting and killing other blacks for their misfortunes

After seeing this advancement in SA as at 40-50yrs ago I just wish the Britons were in Nigeria at least till 1980. Nigeria would have been better for it..

▶ Armed police arrest an entire household in a pre-dawn swoop on the Shumville section of Cato Manor, a suburb of Durban,South Africa, Jan. 26, 1960. Police roused Africans from their sleep and took them to police stations for questioning in their investigations into the death of eleven people, several of them policemen, in the riots of the previous weekend.


▶ South African blacks burns government passes no longer required by them as new violence among the black population erupted at Orlando, near Johannesburg, South Africa, March 28, 1960. In violence centered around Johannesburg and Cape Town, police and Africans mixed when some blacks fought others of their race who insisted on going to work in defiance of a “Day of Mourning” for those killed by white police just a week ago.

▶ Black South African workers are seen as they line up at a pass office in Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 8, 1960, to apply for new internal passbooks. The South African government enforces every black man to carry this document, before he is allowed to move around the country and work. Hundreds of blacks had publicly burned their old passes during a recent campaign of defiance against the Apartheid government. Date: 08/04/1960


▶ A Black South African shows his new passbook obtained from government officials in Johannesburg, April 7, 1960. Hundreds of Africans, who had publicly burned their passes during recent campaign of defiance against the Apartheid government, picked up new passes needed by all black South Africans for employment.

▶ A Johannesburg housewife demonstrates the pocket-size of tear gas aerosol spray, July 12, 1963 in South Africa, claimed by its South African manufacture to be more efficient as a defensive weapon than a revolver. Effective at distances to 12 feet, the sprayed gas can blind a victim for about 10 minutes and leaves no harmful after-effects. Sale is limited to Boers (whites) over 18. Each canister contains squirts, enough, the manufacturers say, “todeal with a mob.’ The weapon was invented German-born Gunther Manfred Pruss, 41, was once served in the gas research section the German army. He’s been living in Soul Africa since 1958.


▶ Latest South African defense weapon, a tear gas spray, is demonstrated by a housewife in Johannesburg, Aug. 30, 1963. The handbag size canister, designedprimarily for women, costs $11. Only Boers(whites) over 18 can buy it. The spray, effective up to 12 feet, totally blinds the victim for 10 minutes. It is said to leave no harmful effect.


▶ Johannesburg housewives fire .22 pistols at a target during one of the weekly “pistol parties” in the capital of jittery white supremacist South Africa, Aug. 30, 1963. These housewives belong to a pistol-packers’ club of women aged 25 to 61, all top marksmen. They bring coffee and sandwiches for a mid-morning break during their practice on the range. It’s all part of South Africa’s defense build-up against attacks which the country’s leaders say they expect from other African countries.

Residents of Johannesburg, South Africa, receive instructions in use of small arms ata pistol training school, Jan. 16, 1965. Activities such as these are commonplace in the African nation, as are other forms of civilian military preparedness.

Source: http://flashbak.com/apartheid-south-africa-in-the-1960s-photos-of-the-black-and-white-years-8966/

Nice collection.

Back then, I used to shed tears whenever I watched the movie Saraphina. Now I feel different.

South Africans deserved every bit of contempt & injustice meted on them by the oppressive government of Apartheid.

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▶ The era of apartheid in South Africa is infamous for its utter genocidal dehumanization, deportation, impoverishment and all-around discrimination against a native population by Afrikaners. Apartheid lasted for over 40 years with the
support of the United States and other world powers.


▶ Hotel owner pouring acid in the water when black people swam in his pool, 1964.


▶ In South Africa between 1948-1994 there was a system of legal racial segregation, and a classification of color. If you were African, Asian, or Indian you.had your legal rights and citizenship taken.away, and you were removed from your
home, and forced to.live in your "racial communities.


▶ Apartheid-era stairs, South Africa.

▶ A black man rides a bus restricted to whites only, in Durban. In an act of resistance to South Africa’s apartheid policies, 1986.
Look at their faces, upset that this black man dared to exist in their space. It’s sad how terrified he looks, the fear in his eyes. Europeans invaded South Africa, separated Black people from their own country.


▶ Sport centre in South Africa.


Source: https://www.pinterest.com/explore/apartheid/

▶ A letter from Nigeria’s Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa to the ANC sent on April 4, 1961. It was supposed to emphisize Nigeria’s commitment to fight against aparheid in South Africa. Immediately after sending the letter, Sir Balewa lobbied for the effective expulsion of South Africa from the Commonwealth in 1961.
Beyond political support, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the first leader to provide a direct financial aid to the ANC from the early 1960s. At the height of the liberation movement in the1970s, Nigeria alone provided $5million annual subvention to the ANC and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) annually.

Source: www.naij.com/427645-nigerias-role-in-ending-apartheid-in-south-africa.html

cc: Ishilove, OAM4J, Ikenna351, Afam4eva.

▶ Hector Pietersonbeing carried byMbuyisa Makhuboafter being shot by South African police. His sister, Antoinette Sithole, runs beside them. Pieterson was rushed to a local clinic and declared dead on arrival.


▶ South African police tear-gassing a group ofdemonstrators in Modderdam, near Cape Town.

▶ Soweto apartheid demonstration, 1976.

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The bad experience they had is what is affecting them now.They are always afraid of other countries.They always feel other countries want to take their land again hence the xenophobia issue.

debo07:
The bad experience they had is what is affecting them now.They are always afraid of other countries.They always feel other countries want to take their land again hence the xenophobia issue.

It also inflicted them with a rare mental illness; the Stockholm Syndrome to be specific. How else do you explain that they attack fellow blacks but have not attacked a single white local or foreigner?

▶ An example of anti-apartheid street art with moving messages in the late 1970's in South Africa.

▶ 16 June 1964: Eight men, among them Nelson Mandela, sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia trial leave the Palace of Justice in Pretoria with their fist raised in defiance through the barred windows of the prison car. The men were accused of conspiracy, sabotage and treason.


▶ Mandela sews prison clothes in the yard of Robben Island prison, 1966.


▶ Mandela gives the black power salute during his speech to ANC supporters. 13 February, 1990.



Source: http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2010/feb/11/nelsonmandela-southafrica

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