What was apartheid South Africa actually like?
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What was apartheid South Africa actually like?
Logan Moore
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Jason Smith
Dr reddit, I'm /pol/.
It was just like America before 1964, except more people were second class citizens. It would have fell A LOT sooner but fear of Soviet/chinese infiltration of the ANC government made the west prop it up past it's expiry date. Standard of living and such was much higher and it was generally a better country if you put aside moral qualms over who had a right to rule, but if you think about it, Khoisans aren't even native to the region so they lose the indigenous argument and they didn't set up any government themselves, so they lose that too.
Basically, it was white AND based.
Ethan Hall
blacks were economically better off then any country on earth, had the 7th largest economy on earth in the early 70s
now SA is a toilet, 41st GDP. but at least blacks are 'free' to be ruled by other blacks instead of whites.
Owen Johnson
was really having sex with a black person a crime? is there mixed population?
Jackson Moore
The ANC actually did quite a good job of not going full Mugabe until recently, with the BBBEE which essentially told qualified professionals to fuck off if they were white.
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Jose Morales
>is there a mixed population
>in south Africa
wew
It's brazil tier, laddo. They call mixed people "coloureds", they make up about 9% of SA.
Sleeping with other races was illegal under the immorality act.
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Noah Hall
>want to talk about apartheid South Africa
>on Veeky Forums
>doesn't want /pol/
that's not how it works bub
Dominic Campbell
The alternative is we just lie. The objective facts are South Africa has a higher crime rate, lower employmemt, lower wages, far lower HDI and is no longer a global presence since apartheid ended, you can't deny that no matter how lefty/pol/ you go.
Jacob Gonzalez
This.
Read up the one of many books on Southern Africa and South Africa itself.
Nathaniel Nguyen
How exactly did apartheid work anyway?
I hear it was supposed to be like two states existing within one but from what I understand for all practical purposes it was essentially total white rule.