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South African Apartheid, 2007.
This paper discusses the rise, fall and struggle during the apartheid period in South Africa.
3,350 words (approx. 13.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 95.95
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This paper explores, from a historical perspective, the evolution of imperial colonialism in South Africa by examining the political impact of the apartheid period on the society and the people and on the South African society today. The author points out that all the definitions of the term 'apartheid' contain the basic idea of segregated identities based on race, color or social position. The paper relates that the Group Areas Act of 1950 formally established apartheid in South Africa by delimiting by law the respective districts for each race and by barring members from other races from living, operating businesses or owning land in these districts.
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"This new structure of the society benefited from the vote of the population in 1948 when the Nationalistic Party came to power. It represented the legitimization of the white dominated system of law that is because in most cases "the institutions of white economic and political domination were already in place." According to their creed, "they sought to free South Africa from the 'yoke' of British imperial control" . Therefore, it can be said that the rise to power of the nationalistic forces, ..., was the result of the indirect actions of the colonial system of government. "
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South African Apartheid Legislation, 2006.
A look at the success of legislation, introduced into 1950s South Africa, that was intended to suppress black interests in order to ensure white dominance.
3,197 words (approx. 12.8 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 92.95
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This paper discusses how throughout the 1950s, the government of South Africa passed extensive legislation in an attempt to suppress the African population and ensure the dominance of white South Africans. In order to evaluate the success of government attempts to stifle black interests, it considers the impact of legislation passed during the 1950s. More specifically, the paper analyzes legislation regarding social, political and economic factors. It considers the impact of legislation relating to relationships between the different racial groups and government attempts to control the education of African children. The paper also analyzes the success of the government's attempts to protect the industrial interests of white workers by limiting the employment opportunities available to Africans.
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"The restriction of black economic interests also played a key role in Government attempts to ensure white dominance. The Government's influx control policies were closely linked to economic factors; Posel contends that the Native Affairs Department viewed its influx control strategy as a method of 'rational' distribution of African labour between the cities and white farms. Verwoerd claimed that in the long-term apartheid required 'purposeful and deliberate economic segregation, not only by means of colour bars in regard to Bantu labour in white areas. But also by mechanisation of all labour activity to such an extent that the need for Bantu labour be reduced to a minimum' (Barnard, 'Thirteen Years', page 40). Beinart claims that the apartheid planners attempted to protect the interests of white workers and control the position of Africans in the labour market."
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South African Government, 2002.
A look at the history of South African government and a comparison with US political rule.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 89.95
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This ten-page undergraduate paper explains the South African phenomenon of apartheid, then analyzes the way that the government of that country has changed since its official end in 1994. Finally, the paper compares the current South African government with that of the United States.
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The South African Constitution., 2002.
A look at the opposition to the ratification of the South African Constitution.
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 9 sources, $ 97.95
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This paper focuses on the contest over ratification of the South African Constitution in the post-Apartheid late 1990's. It looks at the two primary opposition movements that existed along the political and racial extremes to the ratification of the constitution.
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Apartheid South Africa, 2005.
An analysis of the homeland system (aka Bantustans) in Apartheid South Africa.
1,600 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 52.95
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This paper examines how Apartheid was founded on the principle of segregation thus, in order for a race or 'nation' to progress and prosper it should be separated from other races or 'nations'. It looks at how this has led to what is more commonly know as "Homelands" or Bantustans. It also attempts to analyse what really was the homeland system, why it was necessary and why was it such a failure.
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"By removal of blacks from white areas it would create a surplus of jobs for whites, thus the government saw it necessary to do so in order to protect certain classes of whites. By moving Africans into homelands, it would restrict mobility into white areas and in turn, the threat of cheap labour as a substitute would be eradicated. But on the other hand the idea of moving industries to the white side of the border of the homelands or by moving them into the interior of the homelands would provide a large amount of cheap labour thus cutting costs and, at the same time eradicating the number of blacks living in urban areas. Agricultural land owned by blacks in South Africa was expropriated and farmers paid little compensation for their losses."
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Apartheid and the History of South Africa, 2006.
A study of the history of South Africa and the reign of apartheid.
7,200 words (approx. 28.8 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 160.95
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This paper asserts that in order to understand the reasons and roots of apartheid, one must first understand the history of South Africa. The author therefore provides a detailed historical account of South Africa from the fifteenth century until today, including colonization, slavery, industrial development and the leadership of Hendrik French Verwoerd, the prime minister responsible for introducing apartheid. The second half of the paper is devoted to a study of the anti-apartheid movement, culminating in the election of Nelson Mandela.
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"Until the fifteenth century tribes in South Africa remained isolated from the rest of the world. However, late in the fifteenth century the Portuguese began to explore the western coastline of South Africa in search of an easier route to Asia. By1497, five years after Christopher Columbus had crossed the Atlantic under Portuguese patronage, Vasco da Gama led a Portuguese expedition that rounded the tip of South Africa, sailed along the east African coastline, and then crossed the Indian Ocean reaching Calicut, India."
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Apartheid in South Africa, 2005.
A discussion regarding the question of whether in the 1970s, General Motors should have opened a manufacturing plant in South Africa.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper considers a plan by General Motors as to whether or not to build a plant in South Africa in the 1970s to take advantage of the access to cheap labor. F\The paper discusses how from a social point of view though there are good reasons why GM might not want to take this action. For one thing blacks are paid far less than whites in South Africa for doing the same job and whites in South Africa are paid far less than a laborer in the United States.
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"African history after the arrival of Europeans was a history of racial attitudes continuing after the end of the colonial era. In the modern era, apartheid was the major social structure affecting every aspect of South African society and South African relations with other parts of the world. Historians do not agree on the reason for the development of apartheid. What is clear is that more and more laws were passed to enforce a division of the races. Blacks were subject to searches, needed passes, were restricted in where they could live and work, and were generally treated differently than whites. Both races, however, were prevented from mixing. General Motors must decide whether or not to build a manufacturing facility in apartheid South Africa. From a business point of view, this could be justified on the basis of access to cheap labor."
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Human Rights in South Africa, 2006.
A brief examination of the human rights now granted black South Africans after years of being ruled unjustly by a white government.
1,231 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper describes the basic human rights afforded black South Africans after the 1996 ratification of the African Charter on Human and People Rights. The paper outlines the struggle the nation underwent in order to achieve these rights that were so long denied to black South Africans and the role that Nelson Mandela played in bringing these rights to the people of South African and in abolishing apartheid for good.
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"Along with other human rights promised to South Africans today is the basic human right of equality. After years of being ruled by a white government--black South Africans are now promised racial equality. Prior to 1994, the fall of the apartheid society, blacks in South Africa were treated as inferior. It was accepted behavior for whites to be superior and rule their nation. They were told what to do, how to act, where to work, and what god to worship."
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19th Century South Africa Mining Industry and Apartheid, 1994.
This paper discusses the development of the South African mining industry in the 19th Century as a precursor to the development of apartheid in the 20th Century.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 10 sources, $ 47.95
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"The word apartheid, which was coined in the 1930s in South Africa's intellectual community, is an Afrikaans word meaning apartness, which is interpreted as segregation.. Apartheid was not applied as the name of a set of government policies until the 1950s, when the Afrikaaner Nationalist Party government elected in 1948 began to attain success in the pursuit of an agenda that eventually excluded all non.whites from effective participation in government, and in the initiation of other policies the principal objective of which was the complete social segregation of whites and non whites in the then Union of South Africa."
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Levi Strauss in South Africa, 2005.
The paper analyzes the Levi Strauss Company's proposed move into the South African market.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper considers the move of Levi Strauss into the market in South Africa and the possible affects due to the fact that South Africa is a signatory to GATT. The paper notes that the company is now planning to expand its business to the Southern African region via South Africa and considers the fact that previously South Africa was a country shunned by much of the world for its policy of apartheid. However, this boycott has now been lifted. The history of the Levi Strauss Company is also mentioned.
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"The Levi Strauss Company was founded in 1853 by Bavarian immigrant Levi Strauss, and the company today is one of the world's largest brand-name apparel marketers, with sales in more than 110 countries. Levi's apparel products are sold under the Levi's, Dockers, and Levi Strauss Signature brands. In 1873, Levi Strauss and Nevada tailor Jacob Davis patented the process of putting rivets in pants for strength, creating the world's first jeans. The Levi's trademark is today one of the most recognized in the world and is registered in more than 160 countries (About LS&Co., 2005, paras. 1-3). The company employs approximately 8,850 people worldwide, with the company organized into three geographic divisions: Levi Strauss, North America, Europe, and Asia. The company is now planning to expand its business to the Southern African region via South Africa."
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Apartheid, 2002.
Discusses the history, structure, and impact of apartheid on South Africa.
1,744 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper attempts to define the system of apartheid. It reviews the history, structure and key players of the South African system of apartheid. The paper then explores the effects of apartheid on South Africa?s economy. Finally, the paper concludes with the assertion that the very structure of Apartheid was corrosive and thus led to the demise of the South African economy.
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"Long before Apartheid became the official political system of South Africa, the nation struggled with animosity among the races. Much of this animosity could be attributed to the settlement of the Dutchmen and Englishmen. Many of these settlers acquired their land through conquest and for that reason they feared the black majority. Thus the Europeans began to segregate themselves from the Africans."
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Apartheid, 2006.
An overview of Apartheid and its eventual downfall.
1,822 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper examines how variances in race and color, controlled, confined and humiliated native South Africans for almost a century. Decades of oppression took their toll on black South Africans and they eventually resisted against their oppressors. It looks at how the cumulative resistance of oppressed South Africans and sympathizers from other countries ultimately triggered the downfall of the apartheid-enforcing government.
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"The black citizens of South Africa, who were subjected to innumerable atrocities under the government of the Afrikaners, were forced into reluctant but violent protests. The majority groups within South Africa formed several organizations in hopes of peacefully obtaining the liberties to which they were entitled. These organizations, quickly banned and dissolved by the Apartheid government, included the African Political Organization, formed in 1902, the 1923 South African Indian Congress, and the African National Congress (ANC) of 1912. The African Political Organization was created in order to protest the injustices of the present government toward the oppressed people in general, while other organizations were created to protect only the rights of certain races or groups of people. The South African Indian Congress was such an organization."
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F.W. de Klerk, 2002.
Discusses this former South African Prime Minister's struggle to maintain a balance in the country's political arena while dismantling apartheid.
2,180 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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F.W. de Klerk's transformation of South Africa's National Party was instrumental in freeing South Africa from the grip of apartheid. The paper explains how the self-described centralist had to undertake a very difficult balancing act between striving for consensus among the National Party's (NP) right wingers and the African National Congress's (ANC) freedom fighters. Yet he was less successful in the equally difficult task of establishing his minority rule party as a strong and credible opposition party in a post-apartheid world. The paper discusses de Klerk's relationship with his successor, Nelson Mandela and their actions which led to a 'one-man-one-vote' system of elections in a freed South Africa.
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"The political fallout of this cautious approach was significant. It made the already difficult task of convincing the newly expanded electorate that the architects of apartheid should be charged with dismantling the race-based system even harder, the same system that kept them in power for 50 years. The slow embrace of reform created the perception that the National Party was only half heartedly committed to the new South Africa. The National Party had a short and crucial window in which to seal its image as reformers. And the ANC successfully seized and exploited this weakness. From the time of Mandela's release from prison in 1990 to his election of President of South Africa in 1994, majority rule support for the ANC only strengthened."
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Apartheid, 2006.
Examines the race laws in South Africa between 1948 and 1994.
1,626 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper examines the historical beginnings of apartheid and discusses how this repressive system gained popularity. Further, this paper discusses the impact of the new system on the lives of white South Africans, from the perspective of both those who benefited from the system, and those who fought against it. Finally, a discussion of the impact of apartheid on black South Africans is presented.
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"Further segregation was created when the Natives Act of 1923 was enacted, which restricted movement in white urban areas. The laws stated that black were only allowed in urban areas for labor, and that any black township was to be created away from the white urban centers. Further, all blacks and those of mixed decent were required to carry pass cards at all times in white areas, further restricting their access (Falola, 198)."
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Media Policy in South Africa, 2007.
An analysis of media policy in South Africa and a comparison of media performance standards in Britain, Italy and Germany.
3,606 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 100.95
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This paper explains that one of the main roles of the press in any democracy is that of a public watchdog that is vigilant over government activities on behalf of the people that government serves. The paper focuses on South Africa as a point of reference and refers to the history of South African policy as well as certain European media policy counterparts, in order to gauge standards of media performance.
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Introduction
Media and Democracy
Media Policy in South Africa
External Media Policy
Policy Formulation Aspects
Internal Media Policy
Policy Formulation Aspects
The Gate keeping Function
European Media Policy
United Kingdom Media Policy
Italian Media Policy
German Media Policy
South African Media Policy History
Apartheid Era
After Apartheid
Comparison
Conclusion
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"One of the main roles that the press plays in any democracy is that of a public watchdog that is vigilant over government activities on behalf of the people that government serves (Krimsky, 2000). The media is a fundamental tool in the decision-making of the democratic government in any country. A democracy requires the people of the state to make choices and decisions on a daily basis. This therefore needs to be aided by a media and media environment that allows for objectivity through its content and the journalists and staff of the forms of media themselves. The media needs to inform, without judging (Krimsky, 2000)."
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