Apartheid effects on the South African Apartheid

 When the Afrikaner -backed National Party came to power in South Africa in 1948, it implemented its campaign promises in the form of high apartheid. This allowed the National Party to enact such legislation as the Population Registration Act, which enforced classification into four racial categories: white, colored, Asiatic.

The next high apartheid landmark was the group Areas Act of 1950, this act enforced, the separate areas of residence by race across the country. It would be this act that eventually led to promotion of Bantu Self- Government Act of 1959 that transferred Africans’ Political rights to this state, which allowed the South African government to treat natives as foreigners and allow them no political representation in the South African government.

The National Party government treated non-whites as second class citizens and in the case of African s to the “homelands” of Bantustans , the National Party was able to justify stripping away any basic right s Africans had in the country of South Africa . The international community refused to organize these homelands, and pressure eventually began to build from all sides to allow equal rights for all residents of South Africa.

In response to this oppression by the white minority government, the anti-apartheid struggle by South Africans began soon after the implementation of apartheid in 1948. The movement went global and was heavily influenced by the organizations and networks of South Africans that operated inside the nation.

Nelson Mandela, the first president in post-apartheid South Africa, believed the results from the anti-apartheid movement sanctions, was effective. On the side that believes the anti-apartheid movement had no discernable impact on the dismantling of apartheid is the former South African president, F.W. de Klerk. Eventually a negotiated peace was agreed upon and the first elect ions for all South Africans took place in 1994, resulting an electoral victory for the ANC (African National Congress).