Prejudice

Being prejudice is horrible, because prejudice can lead to war and killing, we don’t need another Holocaust on are hands. Over twenty million people died between 1938-1946. There has been a whole lot of prejudice and racism going on in South Africa, from 1948 when the nationalist party got voted in and apartheid came about.

Apartheid ties in with prejudice because the whites were prejudice against the blacks. This meant that at the time the blacks didn’t get much money spent on their education. They had to go to different schools, washrooms, water fountains, public transportation, stores and restaurants because people were prejudice and racist. This lead to the establishment of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), an illegal black party, who were freedom fighters fighting to end apartheid and among them there leader Nelson Mandela. The A.N.C. also had some white supporters.

Apartheid ended when at least 85% of registered voters came to vote. About 68% of them said yes to talks that aimed at creating a new political structure where the black majority would participate in choosing South Africa’s government.

F.W. de Klerk released Nelson Mandela in 1990, and the first democratic vote took place in 1994 when Nelson Mandela was voted into office.

Since then prejudice has taken a turn around against the whites. This because there is now affirmative action, which means a certain percentage of workers have to be black. So the least likely person to get a job in South Africa is a white woman. Also, a white man around 30 years old who is a qualified accountant would have a harder time getting a job than a black man in the same position. Even if the white man had more experience and more qualifications, the black man would get the job first.

I feel the world would be a much better place if no one were prejudice to one another. In Nelson Mandela’s words “Never, never and never again shall this beautiful land feel the oppression to one by another”.