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Social Transformation In South Africa

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The South African freedom was not handed on a silver platter but it was extremely fought for in a battle for liberation where a lot of people died claiming their rights and also trying to wipe away the umbrella of oppression, in his autobiography The Long Walk to Freedom, the late Doctor Holihlahla Nelson Mandela talks about various ways in which he and the fellow South Africans paid dearly whilst fighting against the Apartheid laws to be where South Africa is right now in terms of social transformation (Mandela, 1995). Looking at South Africa and the struggle for democracy, transformation from the colonial period to the postcolonial it is very clear to see that a lot of changes have been made regarding the social transformation. These …show more content…

It is important to know that when the westerns came over they colonized and took over the whole of South Africa. This is another form of transformation because the westerns came with new rules and oppressed the locals. They presented new things like religion and ways of living into the lives of the Africans, just to exploit them meaning that even the present form of education and ways of obtaining knowledge was transformed. However the transformation was not even slightly in favor of the Africans because the aims of the westerns were to make sure that they develop segregation by all means in terms of race, culture and beliefs. This is all during the colonial period when the blacks were kept with blacks and also whites with whites, no interrelations and integrations were allowed during that time such acts were fobbed, drawing boundaries making sure that the only thing that the black man knew he was good at was being a slave, inferior to the white man. In addition to that even the education provided (Bantu Education) to the black man by the apartheid government was merely oppression to keep the blacks in their place which was a fierce strategy for implanting the idea on the blacks that they are targets and the whites are agents, that they are taught to have a tool to only communicate to the needs of the oppressor and they will always work under the white mans’ command, forever be slaves and nothing more (citation). Lacks facts and needs a lot of

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