Introduction
The United Nations, whose responsibility is to protect the basic human rights of all individuals, created the Millennium Development Goals to meet unprecedented basic needs of the poor in different areas of the world. The United Nations’ first mission: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Nonetheless, how is an entity such as the United Nations, or individual nation-states at that, supposed to break down systems that were meant to be permanent? A system can be described as an organized and purposeful configuration that consists of interrelated and interdependent entities that continually influence, indirectly or directly, one another. The principle of this system is to maintain the existence of the system outright, in addition to achieving its planned out goals. When applied to South African history, the system of apartheid was assembled on the premise of promoting the white agenda, while oppressing every other ethnic group through segregation. This paper will have multiple goals. …show more content…
Firstly, this essay will argue that the system of apartheid, although outlawed in South Africa in 1994, still has distinct residual layouts within South African culture. This essay will also analyze how apartheid has contributed to some of the main causes of poverty, while it will also analyze why the edifices cemented by apartheid are so difficult to destroy. Third, this paper will analyze solutions that have been implemented by the South African government, while simultaneously purporting alternatives to each attempted implementation. Lastly, this paper concludes that with a the continuance of a myriad of varying agendas, South Africa will be unable to effectively help its struggling citizens rise out of poverty. History of South Africa South Africa was historically a popular spot for merchants to stop and “refresh” themselves while traveling the seas for the Dutch East India Company, and later the British East India Company (O’Neil). As the East India Company grew in size and popularity, the refreshment station in Cape Town was colonized. In this, the colonies forced the native tribes, such as the Xhosa and KwaZulu into the interior of South Africa, quickly following the natives’ trek once they discovered deposits of gold in the newly settled black territories. The native tribes were then pushed even further into South Africa, eventually to be decreed specific land by the Afrikaner-led regime that were called Bantustans. Blacks, coloreds, and Asian-Indians were then forced to stay in their determined area, segregated from whites that were in more urban and developed societies. Apartheid consolidated Afrikaner power, while eliminating all rights for other ethnic groups in South African politics. Nonetheless, this system of apartheid was broken down quickly due to several definite, intertwined events. Firstly, the apartheid regime was severely weakened by the large pool of uneducated workers that the state possessed. As a response to the large pool of uneducated and unskilled laborers, which made the economic sector of the Afrikaner regime falter, foreign firms and foreign countries began to divestment in the country. Due to this, Afrikaner politicians began to split into two particular viewpoints. Afrikaners then allowed blacks to get involved in politics slightly enough that it dissuaded the blacks from adopting communist ideologies. In this, the apartheid regime lost the support of international powers such as the United States who looked to deter the spread of communism, which allowed entities such the African National
The United Nations, whose responsibility is to protect the basic human rights of all individuals, created the Millennium Development Goals to meet unprecedented basic needs of the poor in different areas of the world. The United Nations’ first mission: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Nonetheless, how is an entity such as the United Nations, or individual nation-states at that, supposed to break down systems that were meant to be permanent? A system can be described as an organized and purposeful configuration that consists of interrelated and interdependent entities that continually influence, indirectly or directly, one another. The principle of this system is to maintain the existence of the system outright, in addition to achieving its planned out goals. When applied to South African history, the system of apartheid was assembled on the premise of promoting the white agenda, while oppressing every other ethnic group through segregation. This paper will have multiple goals. …show more content…
Firstly, this essay will argue that the system of apartheid, although outlawed in South Africa in 1994, still has distinct residual layouts within South African culture. This essay will also analyze how apartheid has contributed to some of the main causes of poverty, while it will also analyze why the edifices cemented by apartheid are so difficult to destroy. Third, this paper will analyze solutions that have been implemented by the South African government, while simultaneously purporting alternatives to each attempted implementation. Lastly, this paper concludes that with a the continuance of a myriad of varying agendas, South Africa will be unable to effectively help its struggling citizens rise out of poverty. History of South Africa South Africa was historically a popular spot for merchants to stop and “refresh” themselves while traveling the seas for the Dutch East India Company, and later the British East India Company (O’Neil). As the East India Company grew in size and popularity, the refreshment station in Cape Town was colonized. In this, the colonies forced the native tribes, such as the Xhosa and KwaZulu into the interior of South Africa, quickly following the natives’ trek once they discovered deposits of gold in the newly settled black territories. The native tribes were then pushed even further into South Africa, eventually to be decreed specific land by the Afrikaner-led regime that were called Bantustans. Blacks, coloreds, and Asian-Indians were then forced to stay in their determined area, segregated from whites that were in more urban and developed societies. Apartheid consolidated Afrikaner power, while eliminating all rights for other ethnic groups in South African politics. Nonetheless, this system of apartheid was broken down quickly due to several definite, intertwined events. Firstly, the apartheid regime was severely weakened by the large pool of uneducated workers that the state possessed. As a response to the large pool of uneducated and unskilled laborers, which made the economic sector of the Afrikaner regime falter, foreign firms and foreign countries began to divestment in the country. Due to this, Afrikaner politicians began to split into two particular viewpoints. Afrikaners then allowed blacks to get involved in politics slightly enough that it dissuaded the blacks from adopting communist ideologies. In this, the apartheid regime lost the support of international powers such as the United States who looked to deter the spread of communism, which allowed entities such the African National