Essays on Apartheid

Trevor Noah is a well-known comedian from South Africa, he shares his story chronologically from his traumatic childhood. As Noah goes into detail from his childhood struggle in the New York Times Bestseller, “Born a Crime,” he goes into depth from the period of apartheid…

The nature of crime in the apartheid era South Africa can be directed to the colonial forces that were in power. This has been rooted in the notion that violence in South Africa has become normative rather than deviant and it has come to be…

Apartheid was a system of racial segregation enforced in South Africa through legislation by the National Party after they one the election in 1948. The Treason Trial took place on 5th December, 1956, 156 Congress leaders were arrested and put on trial for high treason,…

How accurate is it to say that opposition to apartheid in the years 1948-59 was largely unsuccessful? There was much opposition to Apartheid up to 1959 from when it was first implemented in 1948 by the National Party. The National Party introduced Apartheid into legislation…

Apartheid means separateness, or apartness, in the Afrikaans language. Such a simple, unassuming word…until you realize the real-world effect that word has had on humanity. Racial discrimination, inequality, and oppression are a small part of the evil that causes men to classify other men as…