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This 9 page paper discusses the situation of apartheid in South Africa in relation to how this mirrored the Victorian ideas of contamination and moral degeneracy. Examples from the past are given which correlate with South African apartheid, such as when the English colonized India. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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unstable to maintain the inequality and fell once Nelson Mandela was elected. Similar ideologies have existed before - in other times and other lands. Clearly, there is a
correlation between South Africa and other instances of separation among peoples. Apartheid in South Africa - a Basic Summary "Apartheid
is the Afrikaans word for the system of systematic, legalized discrimination that existed in South Africa between 1948-1994" (Apartheid, 2002). Theoretically, this system supported difference rather than hierarchy, but
in reality, white were privy to the best jobs, the best housing and voting (Apartheid, 2002). This system became legally dismantled in 1994 when Nelson Mandela was president (Apartheid,
2002). Apartheid in South Africa became the ideology of the National Party after 1948 (South Africas Apartheid Era and the
Transition to Multiracial Democracy, 2002). However, this was the conviction of a few prominent leaders - not representative of the masses of South Africa, and the result was a
very dark era in South African history (South Africas Apartheid Era and the Transition to Multiracial Democracy, 2002). According to this group, they believed they had happened upon a
formula which would ensure the future of the white minority into the next century (South Africas Apartheid Era and the Transition to Multiracial Democracy, 2002). Basically, what these
leaders did was to create a permanent white political majority by purging the blacks from the political system, and also by creating "homelands" for Africans "where alternative political provision could
be made for them leading up to self-government and a form of independence" (South Africas Apartheid Era and the Transition to Multiracial Democracy, 2002). This plan was carried out
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