Apartheid in South Africa

This article is linked to the Prejudice And Persecution topic.

The Apartheid was a legal system put in place in South Africa from 1948-1994.

The system was used to seperate the blacks from the whites in everyday life. The blacks were seen as a lower human being, and could be treated by the whites as inferior - despite the whites being in minority.

Cry Freedom
Cry freedom was a film of a true story about Donald Woods and how he escaped South Africa to tell the rest of the world what was going on.

One of the other characters, Steve Biko, who was a black man, stood up against the government in a peaceful way. However, as he was too intellegent, the government couldn't get rid of him. But he was assassinated by the government, and his cause of death was never publicised.

Past Questions...
Using examples and information from your studies, explain how persecution can affect an individual or a group. You could include any of the following effects:

physical, social, economic, psychological, legal. (8 marks)