Go here for the assignment – hard copy only…don’t Google docs this one. It is due by class period on Thursday. This assignment is worth fifty points.
Some of you have no knowledge of Apartheid in South Africa. It is nearly impossible to understand Nelson Mandela’s 
impact on the world, without a working comprehension of the practice. It is my goal with this assignment to provide you a brief introduction.
Apartheid is an Afrikaans’ word meaning “being apart” or “apart hood”. The Afrikaans language is an off-shoot of Dutch and was introduced into South Africa in colonial times. With roughly 7 million native speakers, or 13.5% of the population, it was along with English the focal language of white Europeans. It was also the language of apartheid and National Party which carried out apartheid. While African blacks were persecuted from colonial times, it wasn’t until 1948 when the National Party’s white minority (12% of the population) seized full control of the government that Apartheid was fully institutionalized practice within the country and the South African constitution. From then until 1994 the white minority in South Africa created – a separation between European whites and all other races.
