• The Sharpeville Massacre in the Growth of International Anti-Apartheid Resistance

     

    Essays2 History, Culture

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Published: 19.05.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'The Sharpeville Massacre in the Growth of International Anti-Apartheid Resistanc', 1.
  • Essays 'The Sharpeville Massacre in the Growth of International Anti-Apartheid Resistanc', 2.
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Evaluate the significance of the Sharpeville Massacre in the growth of the international anti-apartheid movement to 1994.
Daniel Rappoport
Apartheid, justified as a policy of separate development for the different races, was a social engineering system that codified in law and defended with force, the segregation of the races and the domination of the whites. The various international anti-apartheid movements exponentially applied adequate repercussions to South Africa, however due to social, political, cultural or economic ties, moral upstanding was subsequently avoided for as long as possible. The context of early apartheid being set back in the wraths of the Cold War and the juxtaposing relationship between South Africa?s internationally illegal system and its economic attractiveness outlay the dilemma in which finding justice for the blacks during the years of apartheid meant. …

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