Outline the steps that brought about the end of the system of apartheid in South Africa in the 1990s In 1948, South Africa saw an all-white national party, this created apartheid. Apartheid separated the blacks and native South Africans from all the whites in nearly every way possible. The “coloured” people were unable to marry outside their own race, travel where they chose, or decide where they lived—they didn’t have basic human rights as they were not considered "people." Thirty years after the apartheid system was brought in, Prime Minister P.W. Botha began a reform with the blacks allowing trade union meetings, marriage to whomever, and members of this race were also allowed to mix with the whites in certain places. Soon after this, Nelson Mandela, the leader of the A.N.C, gets sent to prison and becomes a martyr for the resistance movement that began a revolution. In 1976 the small amount of black educated kids began to protest due to being educated in the whites native language--Afrikaans. Civil disobedience then strikes and boycotts increased in the region. Trade unions won the right to bargain and protest the apartheid. With approximately 85% of South Africans being of colour the economy would have imploded. Nelson Mandela was eventually released from prison and was voted into power during the 1994 all race election.
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