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HIS 100 Multimedia Presentation

Our Lives

The Historical Narrative

Patrick A. Hall

Southern New Hampshire University

Historical Lenses and History’s Value

This provides the ability to gain a deeper understanding of the system of apartheid. In an attempt to understand it shortcoming in an effort to learn from the mistakes associated with the system of apartheid.

The Effects of The Systematic Institutions of Apartheid in South Africa

My Topic

• Apartheid refers to an ideological system in which people are divided on the basis of race, gender, class or other such factors.

• Why was the system of apartheid allowed to persist for over 40 years with South Africa?

• The colonization of South Africa by both the Dutch and English during the seventeenth century, saw the beginning of the minorities experimenting with various systems to establish control.

• The discovery of diamonds in 1900 within these colonies sparked an invasion by the British resulting in the first Boer War, thus setting the stage for apartheid.

• Members of the National Party invented the apartheid ideology as a means to cement their control over the economic and social systems, until the 1960s which saw the transformation of the apartheid ideology to include territorial separation and police repression.

The architects of South African apartheid.

The process of land division within Apartheid in South Africa.

Three Historical Lenses

DIVING DEEPER

• The historical lenses provide an opportunity to understand what happened during apartheid. More so what events or actions influenced the system of apartheid. Using the three basic historical lenses of social lenses, political lenses, and economic lenses, to have the best understanding possible on the chosen topic. Especially by examining where they overlap. All the three major categories of the historical lenses combined overtime to have shaped the South African society only to benefit a few.

The Social Lens

Lens 1

• Employers, for example, routinely circumvented the job color bar by diluting jobs to allow blacks to move into positions nominally reserved for whites.

• Provisions were made to forcibly remove blacks from areas where they were not wanted.

• The prohibition of mixed marriages act of 1949. Prohibited marriages between "Europeans" and "non-Europeans."

A shantytown in Cape Town

Political Lens

Lens 2

• The Population Registration Act of 1950, demanded that people be registered according to their racial groups. Thus, laying the foundation for separation by race.

• The Group Areas Act of 1950, was the act that started physical separation between races, especially in urban areas. Which saw the government officially divided the country’s population into “whites,” “colored’s,” and “blacks.

• The promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act of 1959 Stated that different racial groups must live in different areas. Resulting in only a small percentage of South Africa being left for the black populous.

Economic Lens

Lens 3

• As a consequence of protectionist policies, the share of manufacturing in GDP increased more or less continuously from 13% in 1946 to 22.2% in 1981.”

• This shows the relationships between capital and labor within apartheid South Africa.

• Estimates the growth in output which-given much neoclassical economics assumptions-cannot be ascribed to the growth of capital and labor, and is usually associated with technical progress, the social organization of production, economies of scale.

The segregated stands of a sports arena in Bloemfontein, South Africa, May 1, 1969

Historical Narrative

When the events of South African apartheid are examined through social, political, and economic lenses. The overlap between all three lenses provides a beautiful understanding as to how the system of apartheid was able to remain for over forty years. As these lenses provide a clear view of the measures that were carefully implemented and woven into the South African society to ensure the continued success of apartheid.

History and Our Lives

The legacy of apartheid in South Africa consists of racism, poverty, and violence. With white South Africans living exceedingly better than there black counterparts. With descendants of black South Africans suffering from psychological disorders thus, we are seeing a generation of maladjusted children. The result of which has seen them feeling bitter towards there lighter counterparts. Apartheid has had a profound impact on the world.

My Opinion

History tends to repeat its self as history influences the world, our respective cultures, and the community in which we live. This as the present is continuously built on the past, in an attempt to create a better future. Thus, if one does not yearn to understand the past he or she is precariously positioned to repeating the mistakes of the past in the present. The result of which is a cycle that lacks growth as it is devoid of the most important factor to aid a society and its people to improve.

Does History Repeat Itself?

History’s Value

History’s Value

History teaches valuable lessons about human nature, through activities and events of the past. But more so to help people to abandon incorrect assumptions. History also adds value by offering people and society an opportunity to be able to see how past events have relevance in their life in the present.

Evidence From the Course

Does History Repeat Itself?

In module 5-1 how historical interpretations change over time. Has provides evidence of how history may repeat itself from this course. As a change of historical interpretations over time results in the loss or alteration of important historical details, where society no longer have access to entire historical records.

Are Citizens Obligated to Know History?

Are Citizens Obligated to Know History?

Citizens are not obligated to knowing all the details that are associated with historical events. However, it is important to have some knowledge of the past as this provides you with the ability to make decisive decisions and better yet, ensure that you’ll know when, where and how to act if confronted by these challenges. Thus, If history is interpreted wisely it will prove only to be beneficial.

Resources

Resources

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  • (n/d) Baha Apartheid Signage. Image retrieved from https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/article_image/baha-apartheid-signage_0.jpg

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