The British took the Cape Colony from the Dutch in 1795, and after a period from 1803 to 1806 when the Dutch won it back, kept control of the Cape until 1910. ... Strategists in the National Party invented apartheid as a means to cement their control over the economic and social system. ... The government then declared a state of emergency and imposed press controls in July 1985. ... Frederik W. de Klerk, his successor, continued the policy of ending apartheid. ... Although the South African government is now officially free of racist policies, blacks and Coloureds still suffer from di...

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Reconstruction Our history has been a bitter one dominated by colonialism, racism, apartheid, sexism and repressive labor policies. ... [Under Johnson's Reconstruction policy, as white Southern states re-established their governments, which in DuBois words, "looked backwards" toward slavery.] ... In five others, they were more than one-third, and in every one of the old slave states, they were enough, when united with the loyal whites, to control the State. This feeds into the theory that if African-Americans were not disenfranchised, they would have gained control of the South. ... De...

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Bledsoe's declaration of his rise in an all-white society by denying them control brings about the remembrance of the narrators dying grandfathers last words,"...overcome"em with yeses, undermine"em with grins....let"em swoller you till they vomit or burst open." ... His solidarity with the group comes to an end after receiving an anonymous note to stop trying to comfort the people, and being reprimanded my Brother Jack, "We do not shape our policies to the mistaken and infantile notions of the man on the street. ... This proving once and for all that the Brotherhood was not trying to bri...

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The apartheid system was a social and political policy of racial segregation and discrimination which was enforced by the white Afrikaner government in South Africa. ... This quote meaning that as long as the white government in South Africa could control the minds of all the other races in South Africa, it could remain in power. ... The Article 11 of the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid states that apartheid is a crime: For the purpose of the present Convention, the term "the crime of apartheid," which shall include similar policies and prac...

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Since the first whites settled in South Africa they had believed that the blacks were racially inferior and couldn't be expected to live like Europeans, but this policy wasn't pursued to it's cruel conclusion until the election of the P.W Botha's government in1948. 1. ... The National Party stayed in control until 1994, when ANC won the first free election. ... Parts of society were reformed, but the vital parts of the apartheid policies remained the same. ...

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Booker The author lived in the time of reconstruction, a period in which the North controlled and dominated the South, both politically and economically. ... This speech is entitled the "Atlanta compromise address", in which he followed very closely the policies of segregation, in the sense that in order to advance and to progress, blacks should follow the white civilization as an example. ...

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In 1948 with the victory of the National Party (NM) apartheid really set off, the strategist for NM said that apartheid was established to gain control of the economic and social system and by that racial discrimination began full speed. ... A new constitute that took effect in 1984 still did not allow black and colored to take place in politics except through the homelands that led to more violence in the black community and once again a state of emergency was declared in the country and the government imposed press controls in 1985 so that the rest of the world could not hear about all the i...

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From the late 1800's until after the turn of the 20th century, a Belgian ruler known only as King Leopold II had control and ownership over the Congo. ... Leopold knew how to control and manipulate people in powerful political positions, and hastily used this maneuvering as a way to cause very little investigation. ... Like the hostage-taking, the severing of hands was deliberate policy, as even high officials would later admit. ...

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