Apartheid!

1. Apartheid!

2. What is apartheid? • After world war 2 apartheid happened from 1948 to 1994. • Apartheid means separation between black and white people. • Also black and white people were not allowed to be on the same side of a bus or allowed to use the same toilet.

3. Hero's of apartheid .Nelson Mandela fought for the rights of the black people. . Nelson Mandela fought for all rights the black people so he even went to jail for all the black people. The next slide is all about Nelson Mandela.

4. Nelson Mandela • Nelson Mandela joined the African national congress [ANC],that organised meetings, strikes and protests. • The white government knew that the ANC were planning to overthrow them so they declared that the ANC should stop. • But in spite of that they carried on. • In 1960 Nelson went to prison in a isolated island called robin island and he went into a cell it was 1.8m long. One day he saw a polices news paper and he took it but he got caught so he got punished. That's how he knew about people started saying free Mandela and protesting stop apartheid. • He was also forced to wear short trousers and do hard labour. • In 1990 he was finally released from prison. in 1994 all South Africans were allowed to vote and the ANC won the election so Nelson Mandela was elected president. • In 1993 he also was awarded the Nobel Piece Prize.

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