“How dare he try to justify Apartheid — a crime against humanity!”
Justification is one thing; providing information that may help to bring about insight, is something else.
What could motivate a group of people to deny the majority of the people in the country democratic rights, and try to cling to political power in the face of overwhelming opposition?
This video examines some of the motivations behind the policy of Apartheid.
The early years of Apartheid should be seen against a background of a “First world zeitgeist” (a remnant from the colonial age) of superiority over the indigenous peoples of the third world — an idea that was losing favour rapidly in the western world throughout the 20th century, and also in SA by the 1970’s. This was manifested in “petty Apartheid”, or “early Apartheid” up to the late 1970’s when, along with changing times internationally, these petty apartheid discriminatory laws were being repealed one after the other.
The second layer of background arises from a history of British repression, which only increased unity among Afrikaners, fuelling a determination to achieve freedom and independence. This contributed to their reluctance to part with these, once finally attained. Power sharing with the vastly superior numbers of black Africans in the same geographical area seemed to mean certain loss of their freedom. This gave rise to the homeland system and separate development. The rapid growth of the black population meant that separate development was inevitably unequal.
The following factors also played an important role:
1) A history of Afrikaner struggle against an imperial superpower that caused the death of 26, 370 women and children, wiping out almost half their child population. After the Anglo-Boer War, the British continued a policy of repression of Afrikaans language and culture.
2) This led to the rise of a strong national pride amongst Afrikaners, with aspirations of freedom and independence.
3) The Cold War and increasing Soviet influence in Sub-Saharan Africa, with strong communist tendencies displayed by black political movements (ANC-SACP-COSATU Alliance) and
4) the disappointing and alarming track record of other African countries under black majority rule, as the “wind of change” swept across Africa, provided further impetus for Afrikaners to resist democracy in SA.
Over three centuries the Afrikaner had become as much part of Africa as any black African tribe. Links with Europe were tenuous, the Afrikaner was totally committed to South Africa, and had no other country in the world they could call home. Under the circumstances described above, how could they be expected not to do everything in their power to preserve their heritage, and try to secure a future for their children?
However, changes in the world and the rapidly growing urban black population (matched by their political aspirations) were overtaking them. How could it be expected of them to just suddenly hand over all power to the black people? They saw themselves as waging a legitimate war of self-preservation in a hostile continent, under threat of declining prosperity as seen in the rest of Africa on the one hand, and communist rule on the other.
How could power sharing be a realistic option when a simple democracy meant merely counting the numbers: 35 million vs. 3.5 million?
Apartheid laws were being repealed one after the other since the late 1970’s, but the black activist movements were not interested in these reforms, and would not be satisfied until all power resided in their hands.
How evil was Apartheid?
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/28357.html
Most of the songs in this video, are from the CD “Fynskrif” from Danie Niehaus.
And look at what happened to south Africa AFTER the collapse of Apartheid. Thank you blacks, for proving to a candid world that even without being “oppressed” you cannot help but behave like the subhuman savages that you are.
Boer war?? that’s a laugh! both Boers and Brits brought their savage beast tribal war to the innocent land of South Africa! That is the worse abomination ever, and you refuse to ADMIT it. Of course you won’t and can’t because that is the nature of the Beast!
May the SUN burn you up and soon!
To a certain extent the writing is already on the wall. Look at Zimbabwe, Somalia, the Congo, Sierra Leone…selfish minded parties will and CAN run any prosperous country into the ground if not watched carefully. We are walking a very fine line between emerging as a society worth mentioning and falling by the wayside.
Kyk ek weet nie of die wat komentraar lewer Afrikaans kan praat nie, maar tussen ons die Engelse gee nie ‘n donder om wat ons dink die… As julle hulle so haat hoekom praat julle Engels??? (Hulle kyk nie eers die video nie!)Praat maar afrikaans… Ons voorvaders sal in hulle grafte omdraai met al die Engels…
Ek is ‘n plaas dogter gebore en getoe en keer nie goed wat in konsentrasie kampe gebeur het nie… maar op die einde van die dag het elke saak twee kante…Met geen dirsespek wil ek net se die wit mense (Afrikaans en Engels) moes seker saam gestaan het dan het ons nie nou die swart probeelm gehad nie… En as ons so oor die Engelse voel na 5 jaar se onderdrukking hoe voel die swart mense oor die 25 jaar se onder drukking deur die wit mense??? Geen wonder die bliksems wil ons plase he nie…
exactly Brother !!!
Fucking English are pure shit in my eyes.Still so ignorant and arrogant today but now they are invaded by asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.Fuck them.
Censored239, I won’t try to justify every aspect of Apartheid, because it is not possible. However, I have to put a common misconception right: 70% of SA is semi-desert (the Karoo) and the black homelands comprised 13% of the entire surface area of SA, all of it outside the Karoo. Therefore the black homelands comprised 50% of fertile land. Now, does that still sound so unfair?
The Boers were a proud nation who fought for every square inch of their former republics, Transvaal and Orange Free State. Apartheid was a logical, albeit morally flawed response to the demographic circumstances of SA. Nonetheless Apartheid brought EVERY SA citizen far more wealth and opportunities than any free African country. Apartheid should have been phased out gradually. Today SA is just another African country rife with crime and corruption and it remains to be seen how it develops.
apartheid broughht alot to this country. some even say AIDS was created as a tactic. alot of people suffered goes to show, you win some and you loose some.
further more what about children having to learn in a different language or that a certain race group could only get a certain job? also, it got so bad that we werre even banned from participating in th olympics and the sanctions??? many injustices that these people faced were down right horrifying and sadly some of could not rise above it and still suffer today, yet multi-millionarres lie in their hot tubs and dream away.
maybe south africa did everything with apartheid but whose to say they couldn’t have done it without apatheid. yes, whites did cultivate the land and so forth but what about the land act that gave a small percentage of land to the biggest population of race? now wasn’t that wrong?
Angela according to u africa is for the blacks being there homeland…wich meens europe is for the whites being our homeland so lets have it your way and bring all the blacks back to africa and put the whites in europe.hmmm that sounds alot like seperation..thats apartheid u are preaching.unless u say we must die for living here wich in that case is genocide.either way you a idiot,if s.africa burns the world will cry ur economies will collapse.the only ground anyone owns is beneath their feet.
angela if u and yours studied history u would kno that the white settlers where in cape town for 90 years before they saw the first black man and he was a bushman the only native black race 2 south africa wich the invading zulu and xosa tribes from the north have all but killed off , south africa was full of barren land wich we settled.and what of the americans with the red indians? if we dont deserve a place in africa then niether does any white american in america.get ur facts strait U RACIST.
Just think about it for a minute: in 1901 there were 3.5 million black people in SA. SA is quite a large country. How could they have occupied more than a fraction of the country?
Whites have been in SA for more than 300 years now. They know Africa better than any other nation of European descent.
Thanks to improved food production, infrastructure and health care, the black population “exploded” to 35 million by the 1990’s.
Is this oppression or helping to thrive?
Angela, if you believe that whites “usurped” black people from their lands, and that we are not Africans ourselves, then you should see my vid “White Africans” and also read that vid’s info section.
Whites cultivated the land and provided jobs to millions of black people. Thereby improving the prosperity of the entire country. That is why SA has the strongest economy in Africa.
Apartheid was evil, end of story. Yes, you did it for ‘self-preservation’ but what good is self-preservation when you do it on someone else’s land ? Are you people incapable of understanding that what you did was wrong ? You talk about self-preservation but what about the people whose land you usurped ? Did THEY not deserve preservation ? Or is it only whites who are allowed to act in the interest of self-preservation ?
always the problem with the white race, cheap labour or slavery, you use them in your land, and they seek revenge with to much wrath.
if whites just didn’t have the: oh noooo, im white i can’t go and break a nail, or get my shiny blond hair dirty mood; and played fair. then whites the majority world wide thanks to technological success’.
supremists & slave traders are actually the enemy.
yes blacks benefited, but as they also paid taxes and were born on the same land, it was still unfair.
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I agree with you about the cheap labour. But then again – the supply outweighed the demand so much, that it was a question of economics.
The previous generation white leaders thought that a system of migration labour could work – i.e. use workers from outside the country, earning money to support their families at home.
In practice this failed because improvements in food and health care caused such a massive growth of the worker population, that whites became politically insignificant.
but why involve coloureds and indians? and these immorality laws. why did they not apply to other races too, ie black with indians?
It was your unfair and just plain stupid management which lead to your fall.
If you wanted a white land, then you should have thought better, and not let others in, to use as cheap labour, then treat them unfairly above that.
You should have kept them out, chasing them away would cause retributal.
What is CNN? I am in England. Is it something like the BBC? Yes I know South Africa probably better than you do. I was brought up in Stellenbosch. (look it up on Google). I am a pragmatist though and know that it will take Africa many hundreds of years to sort themselves out.
How much do you really know about africa?Everybody has different political views,do you listen to the non sense,conservative bullshit off CNN,or do you do actual research to find out the history of africa and how colonialism has affected that country?
I can give you a link for this, I tried but it dodn’t come up, so I will disguise it a little incase YouTube are programmed to ignore messages with links in them. tinyurl (dot) com (slash) 6qglqm
Aren’t all the resources going to China, and the money paid for them going to Switzerland? How much do you really know about Africa?
That’s intersting. I’ll do an internet search on those people.