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Did blacks under South African apartheid have any rights?

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After 27 years in prison Nelson Mandela was freed in 1990 and negotiated the end of apartheid in South Africa bringing peace to a racially divided country ... By 1950, the government had banned marriages between whites and people of other races, and prohibited sexual relations between black and white South Africans. read more

Having rights and having justice are two different things. Most of the time there was no justice when you were classified black in South Africa under Apartheid. read more

Apartheid (separate or apart) was their main agenda. A doctrine of white supremacy and separate development Non-Whites South Africans could no longer: Marry outside of their own race, Choose where to live, Travel where they liked. read more

Serges’ answer is on point. I would like to add that I lived under apartheid and at no time did I experience the anger you speak of. It is my perception that the anger was (correctly) aimed at the apartheid state and its organs. This shows a very nuanced understanding of the white person’s place in South Africa. read more

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