My mom grew up during apartheid. She was placed in colored. And she talked about the rough childhood she had. She grew up in a fishing village, and she was not allowed to have as many opportunities as a child simply because she wasn’t white. She married a white man, my father, after apartheid and I can’t even imagine how odd that felt. My dad, who was an American college student at the the time, first met her on a college trip. And my mom fell in love with a man who she wasn’t allowed to love years ago. My parents moved to the US in 1999 And today, I’m the child of my mom’s story

@catgirl_ava

3 жыл бұрын

Dang i feel bad for her ,god bless her

@suzanneagnesjeanninegruz3487

3 жыл бұрын

thank you for sharing

@thoughtsbeforeactions714

3 жыл бұрын

That's horrible that she had to go through that.

@slimy6316

3 жыл бұрын

She's not black and neither are you. You shouldn't be with the enemy.

@jam5533

2 жыл бұрын

@@slimy6316 Who would you consider to be the enemy?

That pencil test sounds like the stupidest thing I’ve heard smh

@rekhajp9376

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@dacypher22

3 жыл бұрын

Probably because it was lol

@v.7726

3 жыл бұрын

Wait what they mean with Indian like Indian Native or Indian Indian that's why I hate Columbus why we don't call the natives from the Americas as just native not Indian to not cause confusion

@lightshroom3445

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha du bist aber Lustig

@jesusislordsavior6343

3 жыл бұрын

US4 Indeed. I tried it on myself and passed for 'colored', though that is not the way most people would see me. Anyone with a close shave would pass for 'white', I guess. The mentality which accounts for those laws still exists in the 21st century. Human nature is stable, and essentially wicked. (Jeremiah 17:9) 'The heart is more deceitful than all else, and is desperately sick. Who can understand it?'

2:56 that pencil test thing is the dumbest thing I think I've ever heard of. Many europeans specifically the Scottish and Irish are the palest people on earth yet a lot of them have very curly and frizzy hair while almost all South and East Asian people have straight hair as well as many Amerindian and Arab people. Straight hair is not a solely white trait lmao

@gamermoment4327

4 жыл бұрын

lol im white as a ghost and people call me jewish im like 75% french 25% irish lol

@balto4

4 жыл бұрын

I'm mostly Irish and I have VERY coarse hair def not a race trait lol

@tripleq7888

4 жыл бұрын

@@balto4 exactly! be proud of your curls!

@tripleq7888

4 жыл бұрын

@@gamermoment4327 Probs the dark curly hair lol, I'm like 3/4 white and 1/4 black and everyone thinks I'm East Asian lmao probs because of my yellow skin and black hair

@user-fo1xh5sf3t

4 жыл бұрын

I’m an Arab and I can do that easily, ummm European???

0:28 That's one scary sign

@dutchboyslim5951

4 жыл бұрын

It's a joke, sick or not

@sophialoren7855

4 жыл бұрын

It's a condescending and dark joke, hopefully just a joke

@oneforkong6697

4 жыл бұрын

He was just commenting on the sign he was not trying to be funny if that is what you are trying to say

@roems7140

4 жыл бұрын

Brah hahah

@alanbstard4

4 жыл бұрын

not to be taken seriously

It still amazes me till this day that there is a apartheid in Africa .. the land of the Africans and they had the balls to separate whites from the blacks it’s ridiculous....

@siyabongapooe5029

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder where in Africa you're talking about. African countries are now free and independent.

@peaceful9007

3 жыл бұрын

Black Mist 😂😂😂 you must be joking ... is either your having a laugh or your one of the problem .. which one is it

@GladiusTR

3 жыл бұрын

It would be fine if it was just "balls" that they had. Unfortunately they also had guns and backing from major governments and organizations

@shodan658

2 жыл бұрын

@@pjjunior1402 And this is an excuse to enslave and torture them?

@shodan658

2 жыл бұрын

@@pjjunior1402 1) I am not fron SA 2) I never said that 3) this still does not excuse what Europeans did. 4) You're just walking around the issue instead of addressing it directly Try again

Is there anyone who is here for HW??

@BLUE-kh7xv

4 жыл бұрын

Me :3 and jimin doesn’t have any jams how do u know if it taste good (°o°)

@avocado6354

4 жыл бұрын

@@BLUE-kh7xv I stole his jams that is y ik they taste good

@melissaperks7647

3 жыл бұрын

Me, it’s for my exit ticket thing. Your not alone

@ewaningram841

3 жыл бұрын

me!!

@desiboi2559

3 жыл бұрын

@@ewaningram841 whats hw?

POV: You are here for a Social Studies assignment

@bevgranger

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahah

@simra2272

3 жыл бұрын

@L1quid yes ik

@malikw222

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I am

@alouriia8825

3 жыл бұрын

indeed i am

@simra2272

3 жыл бұрын

@Miku Mizushima yes

Don’t forget about the support of Aparthied by the US Government during Botha’s time

@darrenhowell9415

5 жыл бұрын

How do u measure “better” ? If your talking about freedom and growth then yes blacks are better well off. Growing number of black middle class. Country doesn’t have sanctions on them anymore and is doing better economically than apartheid days. If you ask whites Afrikaans they might say different.

@tsdobbi

4 жыл бұрын

@MATHA NOSHTO-MAN "I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees."

@broccolininja8950

4 жыл бұрын

@MATHA NOSHTO-MAN funny, because that's what's happening to the white farmers.

@tylersmith3139

4 жыл бұрын

The US never supported apartheid. They have civil rights to black people decades before and were one of the nations sanctioning South Africa during Apartheid.

@michaeldengg

4 жыл бұрын

@MATHA NOSHTO-MAN it actually worse

Afrikaans is a language, not a dialect.

@ignazioferreira1732

4 жыл бұрын

Low quality jounalism

@Jaapst

4 жыл бұрын

I am dutch. Ive been to cape town 3 months. I couldnt communicate with the People in dutch. But Some words are the same.

@dwaynethorstein4095

4 жыл бұрын

Maar ek kan Nederlands en Afrikaans verstaan.

@levka0423

3 жыл бұрын

Dwayne Sessions Frikandel?

@emmanuelmakoba6085

3 жыл бұрын

No it's not

It doesn't matter how hard I tries I'll would never understand the despicable act of evil inflicted on South Africans in their own country. 🤮

@lorraineclark2307

6 ай бұрын

Can sum it up in two words: white supremacy Mr. Mandela said what was happening to the Palestinians was much much worse….😢

@zzz-nu2re

26 күн бұрын

The percentage of Black population increased from 68.6% to 76% during 1946-90. The percentage of White population declined from 20% to 13%. Colored and Indian populations remained stable

@emersonmalomar3091

26 күн бұрын

@@zzz-nu2re the percentage of natives increased...

@zzz-nu2re

26 күн бұрын

@@emersonmalomar3091 interesting isnt it

The happiness of freedom was so beautiful and deserving in their face.

@meeraiyer2731

2 жыл бұрын

@FIGHTFANNERD9 what’s ur issue

I'm glad the pencil doesn't fall from my head. I love my kinky hair.😃

@elfulano5884

4 жыл бұрын

Lucky you! I have a receding hairline. The only way I could keep a pencil from falling off is with Super Glue.

@v.7726

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh This is the dumbest thing in history how can you call someone European just by putting a pencil in someone hair

@touchmeoverlord2767

3 жыл бұрын

you should appreciate what god gave

@TheTallMan50

3 жыл бұрын

@@elfulano5884 Shave it all off and then balance it out with a neatly trimmed goatee. 👌

@TheTallMan50

3 жыл бұрын

@Olivia Addison Nice try. 😉

The similaritys between this and present day Isreal is astounding.

@Bytheriversofbabylonhc

5 жыл бұрын

You fool, take it you never been to israel, just what take in what you hear on the media, run by Christian and Islamic fascists.. israel is 20% Arab, who have full equal rights, lead better lives than they would in their fellow Arab countries... sit in high goverment positions,. By the way, never ever was their a state called Palestine, Israel their was, king David, Solomon etc etc etc

@ginayedinak6036

4 жыл бұрын

That is so naive and ignorant. Muslims are completely free in Israel, living far better lives than in any Arab country. In fact, most who visit Israel marvel at the diversity of people in that tiny nation in the middle east!

@broccolininja8950

4 жыл бұрын

@@sarahmile3709 what about social sanctions. My sister was killed in Hebron for wearing a hijab

@xavier9480

4 жыл бұрын

@@Bytheriversofbabylonhc That's right, but there Absolutely was a state of Palestine - and it was dismantled violently. Just as you cannot hold Israeli civilians responsible for what happened 70 years ago, you cannot hold Palestinians responsible for what happened 2100 years ago.

@Bytheriversofbabylonhc

4 жыл бұрын

@@xavier9480 no their wasnt a state, it was an area runny the British which includes forays Jordan. Can you tell me who was their first president? Their was no Palestinian people, until the plo was set up in 1964,

seems like things got worse after apartheid ended with the looting etc. The corruption of the govt and law enforcement is incomprehensible. The power isn't on half the time in south africa.

This is a shame! All for the evil of money; so sad! I truly pray the people who been involved with that horrible system; repent of the sins committed against innocent people.

@nickycanning2045

3 жыл бұрын

its bad, but look at South Africa now. wouldnt exactly say prospering, would I?

@nickycanning2045

3 жыл бұрын

@@candifloss6392 ok yes.the things that the boers and brits did in the past were terrible.but that is no reason to go killing every white person in South Africa now.

@horseshit1503

3 жыл бұрын

@@candifloss6392we have every right to kick you back to Europe

@Peo.Ribeiro

3 жыл бұрын

@@horseshit1503 yeah but doing so would cause bigger problems to your country... Just look at Zimbabwe; Mugabe took the land from white farmers and expelled them whitout any compensation, then gave the land to inexperienced black farmers and the country went close to a total collapse....

@horseshit1503

3 жыл бұрын

@@Peo.Ribeiromy bad I meant they I'm american but it seems kinda wrong to put the people's there under so much trouble and I didn't mean that in a mean way I was just saying europe would overall would be a safer and better place for you And to the blacks and asians there there guys the apartheid was bad but that was 2m yrs ago look at the way countries chance like america 1970s absolutely atrocious look at it today not perfect but way better so you have no right to put the white people there who have worked there a off to provide for your country and lived there since the 1800s

Can you imagine being killed, and discriminated against in your own land by people that didn’t belong there in the first place. I’ll never get it.

@ramarapedeverycow5549

3 жыл бұрын

Google Palestine you will cry

@universenerdd

2 жыл бұрын

@@ramarapedeverycow5549 but Israel is the Jewish holy land

@BlackCultur3

2 жыл бұрын

This is exactly where my frustration is stemming from. How did the native people just let this happen? It’s mortifying!

@justynjonn

2 жыл бұрын

The only people who were there were Bushmen. The hunter gatherer tribes the Khoi and San. Black ( Bantu) African tribes started coming down after the Europeans had established the Cape of Good Hope.

@trevorhartman9411

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

Stuff like this turns my stomach.

For many people it is just easier to avoid the situations then to have to deal with any situations comfort or discomfort levels etc. Not everyone is comfortable with attempting to have to say every single word right, syllable. Etc. etc.

@sulkel

2 жыл бұрын

oh shut up. I'm white but it really isn't that hard to not say the n word

I could remember as a child how it felt waiting for his speech after being given the position as president. Didn't understand at the time the suffering black people had to go through... Amandla

@JohnSmith-or4ed

3 ай бұрын

Yes, and even sadder that their suffering is continuing today upon the hand of a government of their own people.

Any chance closed captions could be available for this video? Am going to use it in my HS class and many of them like the option to read what is being said. Thank you for this making this information public and easy to understand to those who are just learning about this subject

@irelandaintreal2945

5 ай бұрын

just to let you know, cc are on now!

I just can't believe how stupid they were believing that they were so superior as to trying to rule over a whole continent. I can't even comprehend how they could be so disillusioned as they were. I really hope that people finally get to realise how crazy all of this is.

@TrustThePlan

Жыл бұрын

Nothing has changed, the whites still hang on to the same dam mindset, worse? They're letting go of Christianity to embrace other religions that allows them to be as ruthless as possible, especially satanism, and the satanic sects are the ones who are most dangerous, the methods are redirection they'll cause wars, drive you insane, and pin you against other groups. The other races need to acknowledge the others, they cannot keep on embracing the essence of a Titan gone mad, otherwise they'll go mad.

@siyacer

Жыл бұрын

they did it

@holyguy2940

11 ай бұрын

White ruled African countries were cleaner and safer, look at Rhodesia and South Africa, all Africans do is destroy.

@elimartinez7704

10 ай бұрын

@@siyacer clearly not

@siyacer

10 ай бұрын

@@elimartinez7704 only because of outside forces

Disgusting that this happened not even 100 years ago

@chaskaabyayala3838

6 ай бұрын

Still happening in Palestine 🇵🇸

How is it possible that nearly 100 people clicked the dislike button?

@reinhardnight3247

4 жыл бұрын

exactly 100

@92Kandee

3 жыл бұрын

@You know where I like it... Apartheid used to be "good" mostly for whites more than for black people. Yes, it was safer back then - as my grandmother has told me countless times before - however, black people didn't really have the freedom we currently have. My people were oppressed; your people saw blacks as "less than" and inferior. And if majority of the black people preferred the apartheid government to the ANC, why did the ANC win elections by 62%? It was a democratic election. after all... I'm not even sure you have the right to say what black people wanted, how sure are you about all that? As I said before, apartheid was more beneficial to you & not to black people.

@lekholokoelekotsoanamoloi9593

3 жыл бұрын

@@92Kandee it was 79 % for first two elections

@accountretired9479

2 жыл бұрын

White South Africans

in every instance of non-violence protesting, their was always an incredibly violent group bent on getting their through the bodys of the people they protested against. in India there was group that caused the British to want to talk to ghandi, because if you had to choose between someone preaching peace, and some one advocating violence, which would you choose?

@LIKEPHILanthropy

Жыл бұрын

I will never question my radical black brothers again this makes so much sense Ima just continue to preach peace ☮️

@MannyWdz

Жыл бұрын

Good cop bad cop

Listen again @5:50 when he says: Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again be a spirit of the opression of one by the other". And what have we today?

Thank you so much for the vdo. This's very educational.

Anyone seeing a parallel with the current ongoing situation?

Same as Gaza

video gave me chills to the spine

Every time I see that word, I get the chills, because it sounds familiar to me since I am dutch, but Ive never heard it being used... Liek a ghost word. I used to feel proud as a kid hearing other countries saying dutch words, but as an adult I realize theres one prominent dutch word thats internationally known; apartheid. And the meaning isnt something to be proud of, no, we should be collectively ashamed. I didnt learn much of the DUTCH colonial history (theyre good at hiding behind France and Great Britains colonialism, and how important WWII was) but now, Im doing my own research.

@donnesbp

3 жыл бұрын

Goed bezig! De geschiedenis kennen én accepteren is belangrijk, hoe pijnlijk het ook is, maar je hoeft je zeker niet schuldig te voelen over dingen waar jij niet aan hebt bijgedragen ;)

@JellyNightSquid69

2 жыл бұрын

@@donnesbp Duits lyk soos 'n weird Afrikaans. Not sure if you could understand that but I could almost understand what you typed.

@gieljanstouten

11 ай бұрын

Dit is nederlands en geen duits, Afrikaans is een zustertaal van Nederlands.

And the New apartheid system, is it just me or did the hole western wolrd go crazy.

@user-nd8vl7uy5x

4 жыл бұрын

The western world? Yeah, it did.

@gasbaroni

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-nd8vl7uy5x Don't act like Russia doesn't have skeletons in it's closet.

@anandisrocking007

3 жыл бұрын

It was a different time when preventing nuclear war was more important than racial divide

This video makes it seem as though this happened many years ago, but this was less than 30 years ago.

I feel sorry for history or South Africa and its current economic struggle.I honestly hope that this hate between races and groups of different origin will stop and that people will choose a goverment that whon't ruin personal liberties and economy

@MochoStudiosYT

11 ай бұрын

The economy actually grew a lot after apartheid ended. By 400 billion dollars.

@RandomHuman1103

11 ай бұрын

@@MochoStudiosYT Thats good

@shinji1264

11 ай бұрын

@@MochoStudiosYT loooooooooool you accounted inflation?

@MochoStudiosYT

11 ай бұрын

@@shinji1264 Yeah inflation is rampant but at least apartheid is gone.

@andrewd.harris656

10 ай бұрын

That's why they had apartheid. Blacks are hateful to whites and vice versa. The problem actually started in the days of Noah, and Nimrod actually was the first person after the flood to own people, they were red people, descendants of Japheth. See Jubilees 7. The blacks in the USA apparently want apartheid. In the Southern United States, the African Americans are the majority yet labor laws in their favor still apply even though they descriminate in cases against whites which go unheard. Meridian and Jackson Mississippi are majority black cities where this goes on. Jubilees 8 from the Ethioian Bible implies whites birthright are where it is hot and cold, blacks where it's hot, and red which ya don't see much now because of Nimrod and others later from the line of Ham subduing them where it is cold.

I’m not racist or anything but at least the apartheid had a better government and had actual working power 24/7

@guilhermea2346

6 ай бұрын

Best for white people. It is not possible for you to understand something extremely basic, each individual's experience can be ridiculously different according to social classifications.

@khanyi_zulu

2 ай бұрын

A better government? What a joke! 🤡

@jazzydoc1973

2 ай бұрын

only for white people. which was a few of them back then apartheid is not as holly as people try to justify it

anyone know the answers to the worksheet that goes with this video?

this really helped thank you

NEVER AGAIN 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

@TimothuesOosthuizen

Ай бұрын

Sorry to say this but it's still happening

Very Nicely presented and knowledgeable video

This country was so broken back then I am black so I feel terrible seeing my culture suffering my parents had to live like that rip Mandela ou savior this feels terrible rip also to the people of Sharpville

I wish Mandela was still around. I'm positive he would fight for the Palestinian people as of course he did stand with us and always tried to bring to light what's really going on. We went through the same thing

@hessstudios3500

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@xalpacazeu1332

3 жыл бұрын

the british made a mess by lying to the resistance against the ottomon, and establishing a jewish community in the middle east

@jesusislordsavior6343

3 жыл бұрын

Louie Jada No, the situations are not equivalent. To begin with, radical Arab nationalists have political representation in the Knesset. Did South African apartheid grant political representation to black citizens? I don't think so. And intermarriage between Jews and Arabs IS permitted. Let's not discredit the cause of 'justice' by forcing dubious analogies. And I don't think that terrorist attacks upon civilians advance 'justice' in any way. I respected Mandela a lot, but a man cannot live forever on this earth. If he died a Christian, Mandela would be in heaven. The same privilege is open to people of ANY ethnic origin, but it surely helps if they hear the Gospel. The best hope for Palestinian Arab people is and has always been Christianity. I am happy to call some of them brothers and sisters in Christ. But as I hear, they have been having a hard time in recent years from TWO directions at once, the Israeli government AND their muslim fellow-countrymen. The way of Christ is NOT to seek solutions through political violence. We are supposed to obey public authority, whether we like it or not, unless it commands us to do something evil. As for the 'people's right to revolution', that is justification for murder. Take a page from Mandela's playbook and seek reconciliation with the 'enemy'. The 'enemy' is often remarkably like oneself; in fact, one is sometimes one's own enemy.

@LouieLuciano

2 жыл бұрын

@not tyre damn if you do, damn if you don't I guess. God bless you though 🙏 Mandela would approve of me still loving you.

@aonyx5270

2 жыл бұрын

Palestinians are mostly descended from Jews who were forcibly converted to islam via multiple muslim invasions of Israel. If they respect their ancestors they should convert back to judaism.

Trespassers have no rule on land that is not there’s

@JohnSmith-or4ed

3 ай бұрын

No such thing as trespassers. Not there or anywhere else. The one with the most military power controls it

What is the name of the music at 0:33?

You don't want people to oppress you then build yourself strong.

@filantkploser5589

Жыл бұрын

It's not possible with a low iq community.

why is my teacher making us watch this, its pretty sad

@lona234

3 жыл бұрын

It's important thats history like this never be forgotten because real people lived through this, they aren't just stories

South Africa's majority didn't want apartheid. In 1948, a wrong-winner First Past the Post election gave it to them any way. When apartheid ended the country brought in Proportional Representation.

watching this in school rn

It is shocking and sad that racial discrimination existed and that we are still fighting today.

@happyhour4670

2 жыл бұрын

Be happy that we as a society abroad are making progress in eliminating it ✊

@ald1050

2 жыл бұрын

@Aris S - Nothing shocking about racism from europeans.

@ken3243

2 жыл бұрын

​@@happyhour4670 elimination isnt possible

@SB-jn8cw

Жыл бұрын

@@ken3243 the sad thing is it is not those of european ancestry who are causing the country to collapse. They have not ran the country for almost 30 years and the country is falling apart.

@ken3243

Жыл бұрын

@@SB-jn8cw the apartheid 's effects are still lasting today

This is similar to what happened here in The United States during the 50's and 60's in the south known as the Jim Crow era.

@JohnSmith-or4ed

3 ай бұрын

Exactly

All it was, was a dictatorship. The last hopes for even a gradual liberalization died after the defeat of the Unionist Party under Jan Smuts, whose government had just published a report advising relaxed measures, such as greater employment rights, not full equality, but a step in the right direction. And he tried, calling in support from Blacks, Coloureds and Indians when he could, relying on the pro-British South African Anglos and trying to use the monarchy to shore up support, but in the end it wasn’t enough...

@profverstrooid9401

4 жыл бұрын

Not a dictatorship. It is more accurate to describe the regime as such: the regime was a racist, sexist, fascist authoritarian whites-only democracy. A dictator has one leader for life. The Apartheid regime was democratically elected and held elections every 5 years. They just didn't let non-whites vote. Edit: It was definitely a dictatorship over Non-Europeans, however. Rule by proclamation = dictatorship, and that's how the Department of Native Affairs ran that side of the country. The Native Administration Act 38 of 1927 enabled the government to pretty much run a dictatorship over non-Europeans. If your definition of a democracy is that of an egalitarian society based on the promotion and protection of human dignity and freedom, then sure: no, the Apartheid-era South Africa was not a democracy. This is the view of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, and the 1996 model of democracy is the one that I personally believe to be the best. But a 'democracy' is nevertheless how the Apartheid government was seen by their supporters and allies - its systems were modelled off of the Westminster parliamentary democratic model, after all. However, the Westminster system failed to affirm the protection of human dignity. Instead, it allowed the passing of unjust laws as long as, in principle, everyone in power agreed to it - that's how a democracy was used to create a dictatorial powers. At times and in some respects the South African government could 'rule by proclamation' - such as via the powers granted to the President under 'states of emergency', or at any time over Natives/Blacks/Bantus via the Black Administration Act 38 of 1927. 'Ruling-by-proclamation' fits the definition of dictatorship, but, again, this was not the complete system of government. The National Party was never the only political party to vote for. The sad reality is that the National Party were just very good at attracting voters and manipulating (and violating) natural law to be exploited for their own ideals. It's terrible, but that's what happened. Remember, the USA has been a democracy since 1776 - but most African Americans and other American minorities were robbed of civil rights until within the past 70 years. In some states, regardless of your complexion or culture, you weren't even allowed to vote unless you owned a certain amount of property - i. e: you couldn't vote if you were poor. Apartheid-era South Africa was deinitely a seperated and unequal stratified society - 'whites' lived in a democracy with a social net well-funded by the state, but 'non-whites' were forced to live in an authoritarian fascist hell, with just barely enough of the scraps to survive on to continue living as an exploitable cheap labour population for the 'white baas'. The fact of the matter is that the National Party abused the principles of Westminster democracy via the powers of parliamentary supremacy in order to stratify society and strip away the franchise of South Africa's exploited classes while reserving most rights to the elite. The politicians responsible for engineering that system are diabolical. Just to clarify, I believe that Apartheid and the National Party-organized government was terrible. I believe in pluralism - the notion that all cultures can work together to create an inclusive egalitarian democratic system that benefits everyone while protecting each other's dignity. Therefore, according to my own beliefs and experiences, apartheid was bad. Edit 2: I realize what a technical hill this is to die on, but the point I'm trying to make is that you should be critical of governments that are democratic but nevertheless pass diabolically unlawful policy and grant authoritarian powers. A democratic government should have checks and balances to prevent the powers that be from passing laws which violate human dignity and freedom. Just because a democracy promulgates offensive deprivations of rights, doesn't detract from the fact that it was enabled by a democratic system. The mixed system under the current South African constitution is, in my opinion an excellent solution. In terms thereof, democratic powers are limitable at the discretion of the judiciary if such a limitation is justifiable i.t.o the Constitution's protection of human dignity, freedom and egalitarianism.

@playboicartiismydad4842

3 жыл бұрын

@@profverstrooid9401 There was widespread gerrymandering and election manipulation as well as censorship in media it was hardly a democracy

@RSVPrr

Жыл бұрын

@@profverstrooid9401 lol it was not a democracy

@profverstrooid9401

Жыл бұрын

@@RSVPrr Not according to post-1994 South African standards, no. But a 'democracy' is how the apartheid government and their allies saw it - its systems were modelled off of the Westminster parliamentary democratic model. However, at times and in some respects the South African government could 'rule by proclamation' - such as via the powers granted to the President under 'states of emergency', or at any time over Natives/Blacks/Bantus via the Black Administration Act 38 of 1927. 'Ruling-by-proclamation' fits the definition of dictatorship, but, again, this was not the complete system of government. The National Party was never the only political party to vote for. The sad reality is that the National Party were just very good at attracting voters and manipulating (and violating) natural law to be exploited for their own ideals. It's terrible, but that's what happened. Remember, the USA has been a democracy since 1776 - but most African Americans and other American minorities only gained civil rights within the past 100 years. In some states, regardless of your complexion or culture, you weren't even allowed to vote unless you owned a certain amount of property - i. e: you couldn't vote if you were poor. Apartheid-era South Africa was deinitely a seperated and unequal stratified society - 'whites' lived in a democracy with a social net well-funded by the state, but 'non-whites' were forced to live in an authoritarian fascist hell, with just barely enough of the scraps to survive on to continue living as an exploitable cheap labour population for the 'white baas'. The fact of the matter is that the National Party abused the principles of Westminster democracy via the powers of parliamentary supremacy in order to stratify society and strip away the franchise of South Africa's exploited classes while reserving most rights to the elite. The politicians responsible for engineering that system are diabolical. Just to clarify, I believe that Apartheid and the National Party-organized government was terrible. I believe in pluralism - the notion that all cultures can work together to create an egalitarian democratic system that benefits everyone. Therefore, accorsing to my own beliefs and experiences, apartheid was bad.

I have a question, Why people were protesting?

is anyone else thought his dor or phone ringing cause the background sounds of the vedio?

All pictures in the first min are from sharpville

Nothing's changed....just the tables have turned..

@matro2

4 жыл бұрын

@Jefferson Mason What "came around" was Apartheid since the Zulus disrespected the deal they had made with the Boers just before the Battle of Blood River. Proof they were not to be trusted. Proved again after 1994.

@einauslander6713

4 жыл бұрын

Because taking back your homeland is the same as stealing someone else’s...

@plumpstery5199

4 жыл бұрын

Jefferson Mason people like you are the reason this world is hurt

@AdditionalJargon52

4 жыл бұрын

Argreed

@evgeniam685

4 жыл бұрын

from official, it became unofficial.

Why No subtitles?

I don’t understand what Americans complain about, they had the same stuff just a few decades earlier

@spiderham5514

Жыл бұрын

Whataboutism. Stop acting like your country can't be criticized

Imagine if the Europeans had treated the Africans in South Africa as equals, and built a society that was equal and fair, what an absolute Utopia South Africa could of turned out. But instead they decided to treat Africans like 2nd class citizen or even like animals so to speak. They committed atrocities and massacres against several African tribes such as the Zulu and Xhosa, usually under false pretense, just simply to take their land and grow their sphere of influence. Apartheid was implemented to victimise, discriminate and persecute the Africans. Many blacks owning land in the cities were evicted to that affect, and what compensation did they receive? I agree two wrongs don’t make a right. But to act as if the current disproportionate spread of wealth and social imbalance in the country has nothing to do with its history, is quite rich and arrogant to say the least.

@profverstrooid9401

4 жыл бұрын

I know right? Imagine if South Aftica was never racist. How far would my country have developed! I thought about this recently.

@ciarancube6018

Жыл бұрын

@@profverstrooid9401 i wish whites didnt exist in south africa

@kdtennis1

Жыл бұрын

In most countries , the majority population rules over the minority ( Ex. Koreans are dominant in Korea and Chinese do not rule the Federal Government). South Africa was rare,because the 20% European Population ruled over 70% southern African, 6% coloured ( all biracial persons) and 4% Asians ( mostly from India) , that was like 1660-1994. In 2023, Southern Africans are 80% of the population ( they run the Parliament). Europeans are 9% of the population. Coloureds are 7% ( biracial persons). Asians are 4% ( mostly from India). Africans have run Namibia and South Africa since 1990 and 1994. It is good that both countries allow their majority populations to run the Federal Government!

@JohnSmith-or4ed

3 ай бұрын

@@kdtennis1please explain how is it good? Ever seen a success story in sub Saharan and Western Africa? They don’t even care about their own people.

@darrenmanuel509

3 ай бұрын

​@@kdtennis1 "Firstly, let's clarify: Coloureds are not biracial; they are Creole, akin to African Americans. Recognize the distinction between mixed ancestry and mixed race. Coloureds, a 350-year-old Creole ethno-culture, have diverse origins-natives, African/Asian slaves, and Euro colonists. They are as mixed as African Americans, Caribbean islanders, Brazilians, and Dominicans. However, they are not considered mixed race. On average, Coloured individuals exhibit 68% African heritage. It's crucial to use accurate language to describe ethnic groups and their histories.

During my secondary school years my trunk tin for books was broken and photos of my relatives and family members were stolen and given to apartheid regime security forces to attack my family and relatives where many of them lost lives and others injured because of that. It was painful and horrible and i pretended as if i do not know what happened wereas deep in my mind i knew that those teachers and pupil who were eyes and ears of apartheid regime were responsible for that. Even village people were involved in that matter. Some where attacked and butchered in jouburg and Pretoria.

Why are subtitles unavailable?

Can someone translate the most important points of the video in german, please?

Even tho the party responible for apartheid was founded by a English south afrikan, I still think its due to colonisation from the Dutch and Brittish that it got to that point. And its mind boggling to me that it lasted until 1994(?). Like back in the 16 hundreds I get that rules laws and stuff where non existand and its basically survival of the fittest but in the 19 hundreds? Cmon. Also I feel like here in the Netherlands atleast, not a single line in the history books tells the tale of that period. That bothers me, as I am 23 and just found out a couple of months ago that it lasted until 1994. Heck some of my closer friends are from before that time. Meaning if they went on a holiday to South Afrika they would have witnessed it.

Your channel is very nice

I'm white with wavy hair and I stuck a pencil in my hair and it stayed. Guess I'm black now

@ciarancube6018

Жыл бұрын

what is that supposed to mean

second class citizens in their own country 😔

Damn my thick French hair apparently makes me black because a pencil sticks smh

*Segregation period and Jim Crow Laws* South Africa: Hmmm… maybe we should try that again?

It is not that it cannot get frustrating. It does.

I would’ve passed the pencil test because I would’ve permed tf out my hair 😂 that pencil test is stupid smh I’m glad it’s over

And “some” Africans have the gall to look down on black Americans. This few think AA’s focus too heavily on race, my question is, how can they not???

@RSVPrr

Жыл бұрын

But this is about South African not Americans

@Shoryuken09

11 ай бұрын

Black South Africans don’t look down on black Americans. They both endured the same hardships.

@JohnSmith-or4ed

3 ай бұрын

Maybe the guy is referring to white Africans 😂😂😂

@JohnSmith-or4ed

3 ай бұрын

Oh, and by the way…what do you call a white South African living in the US with US citizenship? An African American, of course. 😂😂😂

@JohnSmith-or4ed

3 ай бұрын

What do you call a white African that lives in the US and obtained US citizenship? An African American, of course 😂

As an American I had no idea segregation wasn't just in America.🤯

@BeatBall

Жыл бұрын

It's still happening in Israel for example with the buses.

@Bluestar-nn2uh

Жыл бұрын

@@BeatBall I didn't know that🤓

@ahsanurr4219

Жыл бұрын

Racial segregation and skin color were invented by white people

here cause of my english homework

Hearing stories about colonisation make me both happy and dissapointed. It baffles me the things people are alright with doing, and the fact that millions of Europenas were totally alright with going into another persons land and claiming it as their own and doing horrible things to the natives is simply devastaing.

@mr.centrist5789

10 ай бұрын

Um.... yeah it was NORMAL for people around the world to do that. 😂😂

@stevenmora0017

7 ай бұрын

Afrikaners had been in southern Africa long before apartheid.

@tina6846

7 ай бұрын

Sounds like what’s been going on in “Israel”…

came here because of a *school activity*

@taliaburkhart4521

3 жыл бұрын

lol same

Wow this is like watching Israel before it stopped being an apartheid state

Thanks sir

I'm shout African my grandfather was beaten up badly... he lost 1 lung but in glad that stopped

what led to aprtheid? why was there so much tension?

@TheUltimateNatural

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing just whites being themselves.

@bunnywavyxx9524

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheUltimateNatural exactly there is not a place they haven't done this.

Apartheid laws still exist today for the MAJORITY in a fairly developed country - MALAYSIA ! Many many restrictions exists for the non Malay-muslim population including: access to education, scholarships, to govt. contracts, to govt. jobs, to owning land, to mandatory jobs / part ownership for the Malay-muslims in public listed companies. This has be going on for over 50 years ! Why no attention to this ? The non Malay-muslims never did anything remotely like Apartheid to them ! We had this imposed on us with the support of the Judeo-British colonialists. To be fair there is a new govt. so let's give them some time and the we see again.

The pencil test issa trip

My friend whas a musician the ak hi left the country in 82 coz they wannit him hang later here hi playt music to give it all to the south afrika strugel . Here the band whas callt deezo and the bannabeat . My friend is deezo

Go watch the documentary tainted heroes 😬

@JusdoinstuF

4 жыл бұрын

will do

Yoo I did the pencil test. I guess I'm white now baby😂😂😂

Whoa 😮😮😮

Come to our country to separate us! Shame on these old men

I find it odd how so many atrocities happened during or after 1948. But don't ask me to remember them now, I just notice that date coming up alot.

@thehistorian1638

4 жыл бұрын

1948-49 was the time of the Palestinian exodus after the first Arab-Israeli war. 1948-49 was also the time of the Berlin Blockade, where Joseph Stalin blockaded access to the capitalist part of Berlin. Following that in 1949, Germany was divided into two separate countries.

@micheles1521

4 жыл бұрын

@@thehistorian1638 I know there's more than that as well. Thankyou for reminding me 👍

@Edmonton-of2ec

4 жыл бұрын

Michele S 1948 was the fateful election year which toppled the pro-monarchy, pro-British, and less racist United Party under Jan Smuts (a Boer, ironically). His government had published a report advising the relaxation of such stratified racial policies, such expanding their employment rights, and he tried to call in support from non-Boer white South Africans, other minorities, and moderate blacks, as well as a goodwill tour by King George VI, but the Afrikaner establishment prevented it from paying off. After his defeat in the 1948 election, South Africa became a dictatorship under the ANP, starting a 46 year dictatorship by the Afrikaners, with the last obstacle, the monarchy being removed a referendum in 1960, which was restricted to only whites.

@WedgePee

2 жыл бұрын

@@Edmonton-of2ec 1948 was also the year the UDHR was passed.

@Edmonton-of2ec

2 жыл бұрын

@@WedgePee How ironic

Thank you for this

Who even gave them the right to do all of this? Sick

Reminds me of Palestine

Who tries the pencil test on themselves after watching this 😂

@taliaburkhart4521

3 жыл бұрын

lol me

Period 6 English honors Lewis?

5:45 and then 5 minutes later it collapsed just like rhodesia. Fascinating.

@moneytttt1140

Жыл бұрын

Zimbabwe fall because of European sanctions not because of mugabe

@jaybartgis5148

Жыл бұрын

@moneytttt1140 then explain why rhodesia was the most powerful economy in all of Africa when Europe had those exact same Sanctions on them?

@moneytttt1140

Жыл бұрын

@@jaybartgis5148 wow you really don't no history they was never any sanctions on rhoadisea

@jaybartgis5148

Жыл бұрын

@moneytttt1140 there were no Sanctions on rhodesia? Are you literally on crack?!

This sounds like what's happening to the Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli.

@wilmerericsson2619

2 жыл бұрын

So true

I have to do a project about this🙄

@alpacino1446

4 жыл бұрын

Same

Any context to what’s going on at 5:08?

@gaelgarciaisagod

3 жыл бұрын

@Comic Sans Thanks! Do you know if there's an actual news story associated with the clip or the name of the guy getting beat up by any chance? Best, S

@gaelgarciaisagod

3 жыл бұрын

@Comic Sans No problem. Thanks!

Where was the human rights where was they.

Good video

Why is it that when apartheid ended,south africa as a nation stadily declined...im really curious

@EEE-pv2eo

Жыл бұрын

Because the people who took over didn't know how to run a country, and to this day still don't. The people who ran Apartheid South Africa were already either experienced in running colonial governments, or had such knowledge passed down to them. I can see South Africa within my lifetime collapsing because of how unstable it is

@stefanviljoen3962

Жыл бұрын

@@EEE-pv2eo facts...

@EEE-pv2eo

Жыл бұрын

@@stefanviljoen3962 A good quote to sum up Aparthied is “It was a harsh, repressive, but seemingly efficient government” Apartheid doesn’t also have to mean racial prejudice, it was a form of segregation. Which really wasn’t all that special at the time, the difference being that Africans were the majority In Apartheid I’d also argue that today the issues we see are crime, corruption, and unemployment, which are all issues the previous government cracked down on

@rollingtim2164

Жыл бұрын

@@EEE-pv2eo Imagine thinking Apartheid was good Lmao. The only one who benefited from this were the white minority. It wasn't there to keep south africa safe it was there to empower the white minority

@EEE-pv2eo

Жыл бұрын

@@rollingtim2164 Well what’s better about the country now? The unemployment being over four times as high as it was, murder rate soaring, the lack of order Don’t you think it’s crazy that speaking of unemployment, there’s more unemployed in South Africa people than there are people in countries like Sweden Yes I do call South Africa better under Apartheid not because it was always racially just or fair, but the fact that South Africa is heading into becoming a failed state and fragmenting, or worse. Yes I’d say a racially biased, but actual stable country is better than a country that’s literally unable to govern itself

not me watching this the night before my exam just to help me remember😂

0:22 No “separation” would be a much better translation of the word apartheid.

Bri’ish people moment

@ken3243

2 жыл бұрын

dutch?

@randomdude4669

Жыл бұрын

If this is a British moment then most of American history is a british moment

After watching a bunch of "Indigo Traveler" videos on KZread, I am starting to believe the most merciful thing that could happen to Africa is more Colonization.

@hystericalchike6232

Жыл бұрын

Whatever Darren