Essay About Apartheid In South Africa

Have you ever had a plan that you thought was foolproof, but backfired when you put into action? This happened in South Africa when Apartheid was put into place. it caused some to leave the country, but some stayed and they protested lawfully by continuing to stay in the country and live as normal lives as they can and eventually caused apartheid to fall this is important because it shows that oppression can be “beaten” without becoming violent against the oppressor. Trevor Noah's mother is a good example of how she caused apartheid to backfire this is shown in the book when Trevor Noah's mother instead of just accepting things the way they were she would speak out against it not publicly but to people who would directly oppress her or her son Trevor “My mom kept telling him off and he kept calling her names, yelling at her from the front seat,” - Born a crime p.15 in this scene Trevor's mother is going to ride the mini-bus to church when she begins arguing with the bus driver about her being a Xhosa women even though by the social rules of the area Xhosa is viewed as unfateful If you don't believe that there is a racial divide there is this is shown later in the book “Whenever the kids in the street saw me they’d yell ‘indoda Yom-Lungu!’ ‘The white man!’ Some of them would run away. …show more content…
Others would call out to their parents to come look. Others would run up and try to touch me to see if I was real.”-Born a crime p.53 this shows the racial divide within the country when Trevor was seen within his neighborhood people were scared and confused about a white man being there. But this isn't the only time that apparted tried to oppress people only to have it fail when in a long walk to freedom Nelson Mandela was put into prison for his actions but he did not violently revolt against the jailers instead he went through the legal process to get things changed within the prison by getting the others not to be violent and follow him which eventually lead to the changes being in acted “Justin Chadwick, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” because Mandela decided to act peacefully the government was put in a position where they were viewed as the enemy and that Mandela as the hero. Another example of this is later in the movie when the government tries to get mandella to denounce the violent protests of the people “Justin Chadwick, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” due to this mandala may not have disowned the violent protests he still did not commit any violence himself or insite any and due to this the government was once again put into a situation where they are viewed as the bad guys though not all of the backfiring caused the government to have to deal with a rioting public they also caused those who they tried to oppress to rise to positions of power and became successful. This is shown when Trevor Noah himself had risen through Apartheid and gotten out of the country and became a very successful man “I grew up in South Africa during apartheid, which was awkward because I was raised in a mixed family,... During apartheid, one of the