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This 7-page paper focuses on the ANC's struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and the discussion of violence vs. non-violence. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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in three stages: Apartheid, Nelson Mandela, equality. As with anything political, however, the reality is not quite so simple. The movie "Invictus" celebrates then-South African President Nelson Mandelas use of
the Rugby World Cup in 1994 to promote peace between the various peoples of the nation. But the struggle that got Mandela into the presidency, and that led to the
downfall of apartheid, was long, and some might suggest, bloody. But was that struggle necessary? Should the African National Congress have tipped
the scales from non-violent constitutional methods to violence in order to fight the White government? Its suggested in this paper that the ends definitely justified the means - apartheid wasnt
just about segregation (as the Jim Crow laws were in the United States). It was about issues pertaining to supremacy, the ability to make a decent wage or earn a
decent living and, in many cases, outright killings of Black Africans by White Afrikaners for no other reason than they were black. It was believed that, after close to four
decades of attempting to deal peacefully with a White (and some might suggest, bigoted) government, that the response to violence against a Black nation was more violence. What it was
not, however, was non-violence. A Brief History of Apartheid and the ANC Weve pointed out that the struggle against apartheid was long and
sometimes bloody. We can also suggest that South Africas existence has been one long struggle, first from 1652 to 1902, then from 1910 on1. The struggle during the latter half
of the 19th century pitted the South African Afrikaners against the British, with the British ultimately winning the day through the Boer War2. In 1910, the British brought Cape Colony,
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