It happened to me...in Apartheid times

The Soweto Uprisings started because Africans were forced to study some subjects at school in Afrikaans.

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Many black people did not like Afrikaans because it was the language of the apartheid government and the language of their oppressors. He wanted to end apartheid. In a speech in , de Klerk said the African National Congress was legal again. He also said that Nelson Mandela would be released from prison.

The purpose of the Peace Accord was "to bring an end to political violence" in South Africa. The first democratic election was on 27 April This is considered the end of apartheid rule. Although black South Africans were granted equal rights by law , there is still economic inequality between blacks and whites.

In , South Africa had its first census in over ten years. Nelson Mandela was a big factor in getting rid of the unjust apartheid laws. The aim of apartheid was to separate the people of South Africa into small independent nations.

The black ones were called Bantustans. South Africa said they were independent countries and exchanged ambassadors but other countries did not.

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It Happened to Me Description Myrna is a scrawny brown skinned girl with curly hair, living carefree in South Africa when she, at the age of 8, discovers that she is Coloured. Her family has relocated from a farm in Natal to the Transvaal province when she first experiences race turmoil. She recognises the hate that brews in the hearts and minds of the Coloured people in the township where she lives and starts to understand what it means to be a product of the White man's Apartheid plan.

Apartheid - once famously described as "good neighbourliness"! As she grows older, she realises what it means to be Coloured in Apartheid times. She realises that even "normal" people can be forced into the struggle. She experiences hate, fear, triumph and the ultimate freedom of a Democratic South Africa.