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Welcome to our presentation about apartheid. Um

we are going to discuss why it is

important and how it is still relevant to today.

So first we need to know what apartheid is.

Um

So in what is a pocket apartheid is a policy or system

against nonwhite citizens of South Africa,

where the white european born

once had all the rights in the system,

unlike the people of color

and they also had

I lost that defined what and what it did not have

access to.

And the laws were technically um

designed to keep black people under control.

Um So examples of um

of rights that different groups had.

It was where they had the right to settle and what kind of job they had the right to

and also education and healthcare

and what kind of criminal liability and

writes in relations to courts and authorities.

Yeah, so apartheid started in 1948.

And uh but there it had been a lot of

hundreds of years of colonization in Africa before that.

So there were mostly like Dutch people um

And uh and British people that lived in South Africa, there were white Europeans,

as you said, that lived in the South Africa.

And in 1948 after just after World War II

and the South African National Party won the election and

basically took all the rights for from black people. Um

black people weren't allowed to

to vote in that election,

which which obviously was a reason why the National Party won because there

were more black people than white people in South Africa at that time.

Um

I'm, yeah, So they were discriminated as you said,

and they were white people tried to move the

black African people to their own parts of the country

and they were having different schools for black people.

So for example, um

white people didn't have to pay for their schools

even though they were richer than the black people.

And in in black people schools, they,

they changed what they were going to learn.

So they just learned them that they were nothing basically

and that they didn't would never fit into the system.

Uh, black people, as I said, they they didn't have the right to vote so

they couldn't do anything like,

and

democratically they couldn't,

they couldn't consider and if they were trying to protest the cops just shot them.

So they were basically treated as slaves.

But in

In 1994 it changed

nelson Mandela became president. Nelson Mandela was opposition.

He fought against this segregation and he wanted justice for

for South African people, black people and Asian people,

all those in South Africa.

So yeah,

mm hmm.

And why is this still relevant today?

Um,

apartheid is still relevant today because racism is a problem

that is still going on in the world today.

And also it's a problem in South Africa.

And we can also link this up to black lives

matter with which is an important movement and nowadays.

Yeah.

Yeah. So yeah, as you said, it's

it's it's still relevant because racism is still a problem and

it's still one of the worst problems for for the society.

And we have to face it just like nelson Mandela,

did we have to fight against it if you want to get rid of the problem?

And I think

I think in europe as well,

people think that it's just in other continents, but in europe as well,

it's really a problem

with racism and we have to fight against this.

So this is our reference list. Thank you for

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