HISTORY

South Africa was a British and Dutch colony for several years. As a reaction of an English domination of the two countries, the Boers of the Afrikaners established new colonies. The Boers found diamonds, and the British people invaded them to get to the values they had found in South Africa.

Those who controlled South Africa at that time, wanted control over the economic and social system, apartheid became the solution. After apartheid got the power, a lot of new rules where made. Unfortunately, they gave the white people free access to exploite and terrorise africans, asians and colored people.

In South Africa, the population was classified into to groups, colored, and the withe people. Where the to races got separated from each other. The withe people had all the power, although they were half as many people as the black majority. In apartheids mine, the withe people where worth more than the colored ones. It resulted in that the white people dictated how the colored people had to die, work and live.

In 1990, the withe regime gave in and let the Africans have control if their own country. At the same time, Nelson Mandela, a man who had devoted his life to get South Africa to become a free country, came out of prison. Only three years later, it was introduced free elections for all kinds of groups. In 1994 Nelson Mandela became the first black elected South African president ever, in what was the first democratic election in South Africa.

Written by Maja Lutterloh