Africa
Apartheid: The Tyranny of Racism Made Law
In whites-ruled South Africa, black people are denied their basic human and political rights. Their lives are segregated. In 1982 almost one million of them were forced to emigrate to Swaziland without option. That is the tyranny of apartheid, of racism made law, of a system under which a small white minority holds all economic and political power, and dictates how and where the large black majority lives, works, and dies. It is this system of Institutionalized racial discrimination which defies the principles of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that has set South Africa on a collision course with the rest of the world.
A view of a room in an all-male hostel where black migrants are forced to live during the time of their work contracts, which last a year or so. At the termination of their contract, they are forced to return to their ''homelands'' and wait there until they can obtain a new work contract.
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A view of a room in an all-male hostel where black migrants are forced to live during the time of their work contracts, which last a year or so. At the termination of their contract, they are forced to return to their ''homelands'' and wait there until they can obtain a new work contract.
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