Apartheid in South Africa

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Children of Soweto, a black township some ten miles away from Johannesburg. The Zulu word "Amandla" scrawled on the wall means "Power" and has been adopted as a rallying call in the struggle for black rights. (http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail/108/0108701.html) Location: Soweto, South Africa Date: 01 January 1982

Graveyard outside Ekuvukene, a village in KwaZulu "homeland", Natal. The infant mortality rate for white South Africans is one of the lowest in the world, for blacks it is one of the highest. In the so-called black "homelands" like KwaZulu - remote, fragmented, unproductive bits and pieces of land scattered around the country - almost half of the children die before age five. Location: Natal, South Africa Date: 01 January 1982

1960 - 5-7,000 people meet to protest passbooks. Police opened fired; 69 blacks were killed. ANC and PAC banned. **TURNING POINT: South Africa found themselves shunned more and more by the international community

[object Object],[object Object],Nonviolent passive resistance is effective as long as your opposition adheres to the same rules as you do," he said. "But if peaceful protest is met with violence, its efficacy is at an end. For me, non-violence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon." ( Long Walk to Freedom , chapter 17)

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Singer and actor Harry Belafonte speaks at a news conference at the United Nations Headquarters to announce the formation of Artists and Athletes Against Apartheid. At left are actors Gregory Hines and Tony Randall and tennis notable Arthur Ashe. (1983)

[object Object],[object Object],President F W de Clerk and Nelson Mandela – the end of apartheid

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