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A 15 page research paper that offers an overview of social life for black South African women before, during and after apartheid. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. South African Women, Life After Apartheid
by , October, 2012 -properly! South Africa is a country that abounds in natural beauty and natural resources, such as
fertile soil and gold, diamond and platinum deposits (Downing 10). This abundance attracted European settlers beginning in the seventeenth century (Downing 4). From the onset, European settlers regarded South Africa
as theirs and discounted the notion that the indigenous inhabitants had legitimate rights that should be acknowledged (Downing 4). Due to the fact that the number of Africans inhabiting South
Africa was immense when compared to the numbers of the European-descended populace who established political and social dominance, the white elite established discriminatory policies from their earliest presence in the
region and these policies culminated in the late 1940s into a systematic form of governmental oppression known as "apartheid" (Downing 14). The following investigation of literature focuses on the impact
of apartheid on South African black women in order to discern how life has changed for these women since the end of apartheid in the 1990s and whether it can
be concluded that women are better off in post-apartheid society. Social condition of women before apartheid The term "apartheid" derives from an Afrikaans word that means "apartness" and this
policy of social and political segregation focused on empowering whites, while subjugating and segregating Africans and "coloreds," i.e. people of mixed race, from the white elite (Downing 4). While apartheid
did not begin officially until the 1940s, systematic oppression of the indigenous populace of South Africa was evident from the beginning of European incursion into the region. Apartheid was simply
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