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Apartheid Chart Apartheid Chart in South Africain South Africa
EthnocracyEthnocracy
Political & Voting RightsPolitical & Voting Rights
• During:–Jailed for protesting
–Blacks could not vote
–Asians & Coloureds had limited rights
–Whites had over ½ voters
Political & Voting RightsPolitical & Voting Rights• After:
–All South Africans could vote
–Anyone could run for office
–ANC (once outlawed) became top political party
–Blacks made up ¾ voters
Mandela & de Klerk
Lines to vote in 1994 election
Job OpportunitiesJob Opportunities
• During:–Black unemployment @ 82%–Whites got best jobs & most
money–Non-whites denied of jobs b/c of
race
Job OpportunitiesJob Opportunities
• After:–Black unemployment @ 50%–Employment Equity Act–Poverty is spread thru out all
races–Blacks take home over ½ of
income
EducationEducation
• During:–Blacks not taught math/science
–Black school poorly built w/ poorly trained & paid teachers
–4 million non-whites did not receive schooling
Soweto Riot (students)
EducationEducation
• After:–No more segregation in schools
–All students taught all subjects
–Increase in govn’t spending
–School completion increased for all students
Cities & HousingCities & Housing
• During:–Whites had nice
homes in all white neighborhoods
–Blacks had no electricity/water
–Cities were white only blacks had to leave cities after work
Cities & HousingCities & Housing
• After:– Mixed
neighborhoods– Govn’t gave 1.6
million homes to poor
– Fixing infrastructure in urban slums
– Slums still exist w/o electricity & water
HealthcareHealthcare
• During:–Most doctors & hospitals in
white areas–Rural areas couldn’t find
healthcare easily (high IM rate)–No sanitation in slums easily
spreads disease
HealthcareHealthcare• After:
– 9/10 doctors are still in urban areas
– Govn’t built 500 rural clinics
– Doctors asked to work in rural areas for 1 year
– Pregnant women & children U6 get free healthcare
– LE is 43 yrs; 5 mil w/ AIDS/HIV in 2003
Hendrik Verwoerd-
“architect of apartheid”