Apartheid/South Africa 1792-1990

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Apartheid in South Africa 1930’s-1990’sApartheid was a policy created by English and Dutch colonists in the late 1700's. South Africa was later turned over to England in early 1900’s, (the Boer War).

It was a system in which people of different races were separated.

“Apartheid”=Apartness

The penalties imposed on political protest, even non-violent protest, were severe.

During states of emergency, anyone could be detained without a hearing by a low-level police official for up to six months.

Thousands of individuals died in custody, frequently after gruesome acts of torture.

Those who were tried were sentenced to death, banished, or imprisoned for life, like Nelson Mandela.

Severe Penalties for Protesters

Nelson MandelaMandela was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress and its armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe.

He spent 27 years in prison, on Robben Island, for crimes that included sabotage committed during the struggle against apartheid.

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Nelson Mandela - released in 1990, Pulitzer Peace Prize

1993, S.Africa first democratically elected President

"I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

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“Invictus”Based on John Carli 2008 book “Playing the Enemy: The true story of the 1995 Rugby World Cup, when the newly elected Nelson Mandela stood at the helm of a fractured country. Mandela, faced with a post-apartheid world of mistrust, confusion and hatred, latches onto the lagging South African Rugby team, to provide a catalyst for change, playing into the notion of "one team, one country".

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