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”