Bringing Apartheid to an End
Apartheid ? What do think that word means? Well in the Afrikaans language it means separateness. It was a cruel way of separating people. Four different groups were formed from this new law. These included Black, White, Mixed, and Asiatic. Some groups were treated better than the others. Example of that was be whites and blacks. Whites were treated more superior while the blacks were treated inferior. Although there were much more blacks than whites they couldn't throw over the government. The reason for that is because the government and the Afrikaners set up police and security organizations or systems around the city to prevent the blacks striking at the whites. Since the blacks could not fight, they had to use peaceful means to stop this "injustice." They set up black groups and peaceful talks to convince the government that they were no different than the Afrikaners.
Frederik de Klerk and Nelson Mandela shake hands a...
Frederik de Klerk at the Annual Meeting of the Wor...
English: Nelson Mandela BridgeEven this led to nothing.
Along with lots of other people, four valuable and important people live in the heart of Africa. They include Nelson Mandela, Steven Biko, Frederik Willem de Klerk, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. They led important black African groups, held peaceful talks, brought international interest, said no to racism, weren't afraid, brought back the black spirit, ended the apartheid and changed Africa back to the way it was. It took a long time for the change to occur but finally it did occur in 1994. This was a day that the black Africans will remember.
Willem De Klerk, a white Afrikaner who believed that there should be equality which is what he succeeded in. De Klerk was born on March 18, 1936 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He studied in Potchefstroom University and got a law degree there. De Klerk was elected as the...