Africa
Apartheid - the Tyranny of Racism Made Law
In white-ruled South Africa, black people are denied their basic human and political rights. Their work is exploited and their lives are segregated. In 1982 almost one million of them were forced to immigrate 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 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that has set South Africa on a collision course with the rest of the world.
Inhabitants of Ekuvukene, a ""resettlement"" village in the black ""homeland"" called KwaZulu in Natal. Millions of black South Africans have been forcibly moved to such villages over the last 30 years. But they have in fact become dumping grounds for women and children, the sick and the elderly, and anyone else deemed unnecessary to the white economy.
Inhabitants of Ekuvukene, a ""resettlement"" village in the black ""homeland"" called KwaZulu in Natal. Millions of black South Africans have been forcibly moved to such villages over the last 30 years. But they have in fact become dumping grounds for women and children, the sick and the elderly, and anyone else deemed unnecessary to the white economy.
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