The Survival of Apartheid

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This paper explains that, although the political and legal bases of apartheid have collapsed, and discrimination in South Africa, at least on the official level ,has ended, the spirit of apartheid has survived because it is part of the country's culture, society, and economy.

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"The apartheid regime in South Africa supposedly came to an end the day that the country democratically elected its first black president, the anti-apartheid activist, Nelson Mandela. However, there is still evidence that apartheid is alive in South Africa. The political and legal collapse of this system of discrimination does not mean that discrimination has ended in any sense of the word. The spirit of apartheid lives on and will take decades in order to eliminate. Although the African majority has taken power for the first time in South Africa because of the democratic elections, there is a big feeling that insures the existing of apartheid in South Africa. There are some points prove that South Africa has not explicitly succeeded to put an end to apartheid (racial discrimination) where the white minority ruled the black majority, but racial discrimination still prevails implicitly. In spite of freedom, the spirit of apartheid is still a live and prevailing in health care, job opportunity and in taking superiority in political positions (Meghan Erica Irons.) The reason of the existing of apartheid is because the wheel of changes "spins so slowly." It is true that the post-apartheid regime in South Africa has made political and social achievements to narrow the gap between whites and blacks, but still the spirit of apartheid continues to prevail because the government promised more than it could fulfill and the ANC accommodated itself to the new post-apartheid regime, thus economic and social disparity continues to prevail in favor of the whites."

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