Why did Apartheid seem like a good idea to white South African voters in 1948?
Well, 1n 1948 Israel was born remember.On 24 May 1948, nine days after Israel's declaration of independence, the South African government of Jan Smuts, a long-time supporter of Zionism, granted de facto recognition to the State of Israel, just two days before his United Party was voted out of office and replaced by the pro-apartheid National Party. South Africa was the seventh nation to recognise the new Jewish state.So even if Jan smuts united party was voted out by the National party here were caucasians believing in separateness. Apertheid was in existence from the first days when caucasians came into contact with Africans. In 1948 it was enacted, it was official. The coming into existence of Israel kind of gave the impetus and the courage to do so.Again most of the education then was Eugenics, social Darwinism. The graduates from this school of thought who assumed political power only saw it natural that separateness is good.Remember also that Second World War ended in 1n 1945. The main issue with that war was the Aryan race. The superior human beings. White South Africans come from these shadows of existence, The Balfour declaration is one such shadow.In short , Caucasians believe to be superior than the dark people, so wherever they settled, they made sure they reign supreme. Even though they had kids with some of these dark people. And those kids were also segregated. Apertheid sounds less emphatic. The correct words to use are segregation. Racism, Arrogance, I would include ignorance too. It reminds of the Vikings.
Was the life of the average black South African actually better under apartheid?
Thanks for the A2AShort answer: no!Longer answer: Hell no!!Even longer answer: Let's consider - I m white and a self identified Afrikaner over 50 so thus you would expect me be less than pleased about the state of South Africa now. And you would be correct: South Africa NOW is not what I signed up for. But then you have to compare it to what I had 20 + years ago. There is no question that SA today (as bad as what it is) is light years ahead of what we had then. Our challenge in SA today is that we compare the Mandela and Mbeke years to the Zuma years and (correctly) say that things are bad - but compared to apartheid? not even close.Lets compare:1)Low level civil war - troops in the black townships - my kids expecting to do 24 months in the army and I would have expected to spend a further 4 years of 3 months a year IN A UNIFORM - gone2)I would have expected to pay in excess of 60% in income tax - I pay 25%3) No way I could have visited Switzerland, Europe or Africa (north of SA) - done4) no self respect (inferiority complex) - sorted5) cricket/rugby/soccer world cup - you kidding right?Of course there are negatives - but they are the "normal" negatives that, broadly speaking, are present in different degrees in ALL countries
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