Tuesday, 4 October 2011

History of Apartheid

I've began to research South Africa and Apartheid as much as I can so that I can gain a greater understanding of it and can then present the information in our documentary. I'm finding it very hard to find information on how apartheid effected white people but I have found a few things which relate to what we want to talk about in the documentary.

The link below shows information one Africa in the 1990's
http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch34-sa.htm
The link below contains a video about what has happened to South Africa in the 15 years apartheid has been abolished.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/04/19/66232/fifteen-years-after-apartheid.html

This link shows the effects of apartheid and explains how many blacks were forced to leave their homes and land as the government had decided they should be white areas. This was part of the Group Areas Act.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C002739/AfricaSite/LMSouthaffects.htm

"There are various reports and statistics on poverty, but very few on white poverty, which is growing at an alarming rate," says Mr. Mulder. "There are more than 70 white informal settlements around Pretoria and Johannesburg, and they're now appearing in Cape Town. It's a problem."
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2010/1014/More-white-South-Africans-struggle-in-post-apartheid-economy

South African economy

South Africa is a middle-income, emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; a stock exchange that ranks among the 10 largest in the world; and a modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centers throughout the region. However, growth has not been strong enough to lower South Africa's high unemployment rate, and daunting economic problems remain from the apartheid era - especially poverty and lack of economic empowerment among the disadvantaged groups. South African economic policy is fiscally conservative but pragmatic focusing on targeting inflation and liberalizing trade as means to increase job growth and household income.

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