Each country has their own significant history regarding the struggle of their country's independence, and or a new government system. South Africa was one country that had an extreme, controversial issues on the setting up a new government, with political groups fighting over control. After South Africa's independence, came a struggle between ethnic races, that came to a solution of an apartheid. Different organizations were created like the ANC, and PAC, to fight against unfair laws passed, and leaders emerged like Frederik Willem de Klerk and Nelson Mandela. After South Africa's struggle to Democratic ways, a place of harmony and compromise was found.
When South Africa was colonized by the English and Dutch in the seventeenth century, English settlers arrived on the mineral enriched land. In wars and battles fought between the natives of South Africa, and the imperialist powers, the imperialist took the victory. Later generations of the South Africans, eventually saw , South Africa's gained independence from the U.K. on May 31, 1910. .
With the newly gained independence, the whites ruled South Africa. The population was made up of blacks and the whites made up the minority. The National Party (NP) received all of the power in the government, and created racism between the white and black people. The NP promoted the Dutch South African, which was the minority of the population and established apartheid. The apartheid was to have the complete separation of the two races. In 1948, the Apartheid Laws, restricted marriage between non-whites and whites and also schools, hospitals, and neighborhoods were segregated. The laws even restricted jobs that the Africans could have. .
After the Apartheid Laws, came other acts that imposed on the blacks, freedom, and equality. The Population Registration Act of 1950, placed the people into three categories white, black, and colored. The Department of Home Affaires was in charge of separating the people.