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See also:When fell under the authority of the, the process of was enforced by law. This effectively meant requiring pagan religious practice. In 167 BCE Jewish sacrifice was forbidden, sabbaths and feasts were banned and was outlawed. Altars to Greek gods were set up and animals prohibited to Jews were sacrificed on them. The Olympian was placed on the altar of the Temple. Possession of was made a capital offense.Roman Empire The refers to persecution of Jews and paganisation of during the reign of Emperor (117-138 AD):'The Jews now passed through a period of bitter persecution:, festivals, the study of the and were interdicted, and it seemed as if Hadrian desired to annihilate the Jewish people. His anger fell upon all the Jews of his empire, for he imposed upon them an oppressive.
The persecution, however, did not last long, for (138-161) revoked the cruel edicts.' Western and Christian antisemitism. Jews from wear the mandatory. A money bag and garlic in the hands are an antisemitic (sixteenth-century drawing).In the was.
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Although not part of, many Christians, including members of the, held the Jewish people collectively responsible for killing. As stated in the Guide to, 'Over the course of time, Christians began to accept that the Jewish people as a whole were responsible for killing Jesus. According to this interpretation, both the Jews present at Jesus Christ's death and the Jewish people collectively and for all time, have committed the sin of, or 'god-killing'. For 1900 years of Christian-Jewish history, the charge of deicide has led to hatred, violence against and murder of Jews in and.'
During the in there was full-scale persecution in many places, with, expulsions,. An underlying source of prejudice against Jews in Europe was religious. Jews were frequently massacred and exiled from various European countries. The persecution hit its first peak during the.
In the (1096), flourishing communities on the and the were utterly destroyed, a prime example being the. In the (1147) the Jews in were subject to frequent massacres. The Jews were also subjected to attacks by the. The Crusades were followed by expulsions, including in 1290,; in 1396, 100,000 Jews were expelled from France; and, in 1421 thousands were expelled from.
Many of the expelled Jews fled to.As the epidemics devastated Europe in the mid-14th century, annihilating more than a half of the population, Jews were taken as. Rumors spread that they caused the disease by deliberately. Hundreds of Jewish communities were destroyed by violence in the. Although tried to protect them by on July 6, 1348 - with another following later in 1348 - several months afterwards, 900 Jews were, where the plague hadn't yet affected the city.One study finds that Jewish persecutions and expulsions increased with negative economic shocks and climactic variations in Europe over the period 1100-1600. The authors of the study argue that this stems from people blaming Jews for misfortunes and weak rulers going after Jewish wealth in times of fiscal crisis. The in Arabia.According to Mark R. Cohen, during the rise of, the first encounters between and Jews resulted in friendship when the Jews of gave refuge.
Conflict arose when Muhammad expelled certain Jewish tribes after they refused to swear their allegiance to him and aided the Meccan Pagans. He adds that this encounter was an exception rather than a rule.Traditionally, Jews living in Muslim lands, known as, were allowed to practice their religion and administer their internal affairs but were subjects to certain conditions. They had to pay the (a per capita tax imposed on free adult non-Muslim males) to Muslims. Dhimmis had an inferior status under Islamic rule. They had several social and legal such as prohibitions against bearing arms or giving testimony in courts in cases involving Muslims. Contrary to popular belief, the did not allow Muslims to force Jews to wear distinctive clothing. Reported in 1100 AD, that the had created this rule himself.Resentment toward Jews perceived as having attained too lofty a position in Islamic society also fueled antisemitism and massacres.
In, ibn Hazm and focused their anti-Jewish writings on this allegation. This was also the chief motivation behind the, when 'more than 1,500 Jewish families, numbering 4,000 persons, fell in one day', and in in 1033, when 6,000 Jews were killed. There were further massacres in Fez in 1276 and 1465.In the of, Jews were also singled out for discrimination in the 17th century, which culminated in the general expulsion of all Jews from places in Yemen to the arid coastal plain of and which became known as the.The occurred in 1840 when a French and his servant disappeared in. Immediately following, a charge of was brought against a large number of Jews in the city including children who were tortured. The consuls of the, and as well as authorities, Christians, Muslims and Jews all played a great role in this affair.There was a massacre of Jews in in 1828. There was another massacre in Barfurush in 1867.In 1839, in the eastern city of, a mob burst into the, burned the synagogue, and destroyed the. This is known as the.
It was only by forcible conversion that a massacre was averted.In Palestine there were riots and pogroms against Jews in. Tensions over the in Jerusalem led to the, whose were the ancient Jewish community at Hebron which came to an end.In 1941, following 's pro- coup, riots known as the broke out in in which approximately 180 Jews were killed and about 240 were wounded, 586 Jewish-owned businesses were looted and 99 Jewish houses were destroyed. Border police discovered on March 2, 1974, the bodies of (clockwise from top left: Fara Zeibak, Mazal Zeibak, Eva Saad and Lulu Zeibak, in a cave in the.During the, the was in turmoil. Britain prohibited Jewish immigration to the. In the Jewish (also known as the Stern Gang) assassinated in 1944 fighting as part of its campaign against British closure of to Jewish immigration, complicating British-Arab-Jewish relations. While the and the were fighting for the -rich region, the Mufti of Jerusalem staged a pro-Nazi coup in and organized the pogrom which marked the turning point for about 150,000 Iraqi Jews who, following this event and the hostilities generated by the, were targeted for violence, persecution, boycotts, confiscations, and near complete expulsion in 1951. The coup failed and the mufti fled to, where he actively supported.
In, with a Jewish population of about 75,000, young was imprisoned for conspiring with the Nazis and promised them that 'no British soldier would leave Egypt alive' (see ) leaving the Jews of that region defenseless. In the French territories of and, plans were drawn up for the liquidation of their Jewish populations if the powers were triumphant.The tensions which were caused by the were also a factor in the rise of animosity towards the Jewish people all over the Middle East, as hundreds of thousands of Jews fled as, the main waves fleeing soon after the 1948 and 1956 wars. In reaction to the of 1956, the Egyptian government expelled almost 25,000 Egyptian Jews and confiscated their property, and sent approximately 1,000 more Jews to prisons and detention camps. The population of the Jewish communities in Muslim Middle East and North Africa was reduced from about 900,000 in 1948 to less than 8,000 today.On March 2, 1974, the bodies of four girls were discovered by border police in a cave in the northwest of Damascus.
Fara Zeibak 24, her sisters Lulu Zeibak 23, Mazal Zeibak 22 and their cousin Eva Saad 18, had contracted with a band of smugglers to flee from Syria to Lebanon and eventually to Israel. The girl’s bodies were found raped, murdered and mutilated. The police also found the remains of two Jewish boys, Natan Shaya 18 and Kassem Abadi 20, victims of an earlier massacre. Syrian authorities deposited the bodies of all six in sacks before the homes of their parents in the Jewish ghetto in Damascus.
In, June 1941The persecution of Jews reached its most destructive form in the policies of, which made the destruction of Jews a priority, culminating in the killing of approximately 6,000,000 Jews during from 1941 to 1945. Originally, the Nazis used, the, to conduct massive open-air killings of Jews who lived in the territories which they had conquered. By 1942, the Nazi leadership decided to implement the, the of the Jews of, and increase the pace of the Holocaust by establishing for the specific purpose of killing Jews as well as other undesirables such as.This was an industrial method of.
Millions of Jews who had been confined to diseased and massively overcrowded were transported (often by ) to, where some were herded into a specific location (often a ), then killed with either gassing or shooting. Other prisoners simply committed suicide, unable to go on after witnessing the horrors of camp life. Afterward, their bodies were often searched for any valuable or useful materials, such as fillings or, and their remains were then buried in mass graves or burned. Others were interned in the camps where they were given little food and disease was common.Escapes from the camps were few, but not unknown. The few escapes from that succeeded were made possible by the inside the camp and local people outside. In 1940, the Auschwitz commandant reported that 'the local population is fanatically Polish and prepared to take any action against the hated camp personnel. Every prisoner who managed to escape can count on help the moment he reaches the wall of the first Polish farmstead.'
Russia and the Soviet Union. Main article:For much of the 19th century, which included much of, and the, contained the world's largest Jewish population. From 's reign until the end of rule in Russia, many Jews were often restricted to the Jewish and they were also banned from many jobs and locations. Jews were subject to racist laws, such as the, and they were also targeted in hundreds of violent anti-Jewish riots, called, which received unofficial state support.
It was during this period that a hoax document alleging a global Jewish, was published.The Czarist government implemented programs which ensured that the Jews would remain isolated. However, the government tolerated their religious and national institutions as well as their right to emigrate. The restrictions and discriminatory laws drove many Russian Jews to embrace and causes. However, following the many politically active Jews forfeited their Jewish identity. According to,Jews considered themselves neither Jews nor Russians but socialists. To them, Jews were not a nation but a class of exploiters whose fate it was to dissolve and assimilate.In the aftermath of Czarist Russia, Jews found themselves in a tragic predicament. Conservative Russians saw them as a disloyal and subversive element and the radicals viewed the Jews as a doomed social class.
Soviet Union. Main article:Even though many of the were ethnically Jewish, they sought to uproot and and established the in order to achieve this goal. By the end of the 1940s, the leadership of the former had liquidated almost all Jewish organizations, with the exception of a few.
These synagogues were then placed under police surveillance, both openly and through the use of informants. The campaign of 1948–1953 against so-called ',' the alleged ',' the rise of ' and subsequent activities of official organizations such as the were officially carried out under the banner of ', and by the mid-1950s the state persecution of Soviet Jews emerged as a major issue in the West as well as domestically.Apartheid South Africa. Main article:During the 1930s, many leaders and wide sections of the came strongly under the influence of the Nazi movement which dominated Germany from 1933 to 1945. There were many reasons for this.
Germany was the traditional enemy of, and whoever opposed Britain was seen as a friend of the Nationalists. Many Nationalists, moreover, believed that the opportunity to re-establish their lost republic would come with the defeat of the in the international arena. The more belligerent Hitler became, the higher hopes rose that a new era of Afrikanerdom was about to dawn.The of D F Malan closely associated itself with the policies of the Nazis. Jewish immigration from was controlled under the Aliens Act and it soon came to an end during this period. Although Jews were accorded status as Europeans, they were not accepted into white society.
Many Jews lived in mixed race areas such as District Six, from where they were forcibly removed in order to make way for a whites-only development. Another organization with which the Nationalists found much in common during the thirties was the 'South African Gentile National Socialist Movement', headed by, whose objective was to combat and destroy the alleged 'perversive influence of the Jews in, and and re-establish European control in South Africa for the welfare of the Christian peoples of South Africa'.During the 1960s, the British fascist leader, was a frequent visitor to South Africa, where he was received by the Prime Minister and other members of the Cabinet.
At one time, Mosley had two functioning branches of his organization in South Africa, and one of his supporters, Derek Alexander, was stationed in as his main agent. Upon Verwoerd's in 1966, was elected by the National Party to replace him.
While Vorster had been a supporter of Hitler during WWII, his policy towards Jews in his own country, however, can best be described as ambivalent. The 1980s saw the rise of groups such as the under. The AWB modeled itself after Hitler's replete with fascist regalia and an emblem resembling the. References Notes.
.Foreign relations of South Africa during apartheid are studied as the between 1948 and the early 1990s. South Africa introduced in 1948, as a systematic extension of pre-existing in the country. Initially the regime implemented an offensive foreign policy trying to consolidate South African hegemony over Southern Africa. These attempts had clearly failed by the late 1970s.
As a result of its racism and foreign interventionism in and the occupation of, the country became increasingly isolated internationally. Contents.Initial relations In the after-effects of, the Western world quickly switched from ideas of racial dominance and policies based on racial prejudice.
Racially discriminative and principles were not novelties in South Africa. From unification in 1910, the state had been run by the white minority and pursued segregation. Apartheid was a certified, lawful and inflexible type of separation that was methodically entrenched from 1948 through a battery of legislation. As it was not completely new to the country, and because many Western countries still exercised their own forms of prejudice in their assorted colonies, there was minimal rejoinder and indignation. The conclusion of the Second World War signified the commencement of the Cold War, and South Africa, with its anti-communist stance, was considered a possible assistant in the passive battle against the Soviet Union.The world did not, however, condone South Africa's discriminatory policies. At the first UN gathering in 1946, South Africa was placed on the program.
The primary subject in question was the handling of South African Indians, a great cause of divergence between South Africa and India. In 1952, apartheid was thrashed out again in the aftermath of the Defiance Campaign.
The UN set up a task team to keep watch on the progress of apartheid and the racial state of affairs in South Africa. Although racial variance in South Africa was a cause for concern, most countries in the UN concurred that this was one of South Africa's in-house issues, which fell outside the UN's jurisdiction.
The UN only became resolute in challenging South Africa afterwards.South West Africa. Main article:On 6 November 1962, the passed, condemning South African apartheid policies. On 7 August 1963 the passed calling for a voluntary against South Africa, and that very year, a Special Committee Against Apartheid was established to encourage and oversee plans of action against the regime.In 1966, the United Nations held the first (of many) colloquiums on apartheid. The General Assembly announced 21 March as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, in memory of the Sharpeville bloodbath.
In 1971, the UN General Assembly formally denounced the institution of homelands, and a motion was passed in 1974 to eject South Africa from the UN, but this was discarded by France, Britain and the United States of America, all of them key trade associates of South Africa.One probable type of action against South Africa was economic sanction. If UN affiliates broke fiscal and trading links with the country, it would make it all the trickier for the apartheid government to uphold itself and its policies. Such sanctions were argued frequently within the UN, and many recognised and backed it as an effectual and non-violent way of applying force, but South Africa's major trading partners once more voted against mandatory sanctions.
In 1962, the UN General Assembly requested that its members split political, fiscal and transportation connections with South Africa. In 1968, it suggested the deferral of all cultural, didactic and sporting commerce as well. From 1964, the US and Britain discontinued their dealings of armaments to South Africa. In spite of the many cries for sanctions, however, none were made obligatory, because South Africa's main trading partners were again primarily concerned for their own financial security.In 1977, the voluntary UN arms embargo became mandatory with the passing of.An oil embargo was introduced on 20 November 1987 when the adopted a voluntary international. Aid to apartheid casualties Another way in which the UN could do something to combat apartheid was to lend support and aid to its victims. In 1963, the General Assembly passed a decree requesting that members contribute financially towards assisting apartheid sufferers.Lusaka Manifesto. Main article:The (OAU) was created in 1963.
Its primary objectives were to eradicate colonialism and improve social, political and economic situations in Africa. It censured apartheid and demanded sanctions against South Africa. African states swore to aid the freedom movements in their fights against apartheid. In April 1969, fourteen autonomous nations from Central and East Africa gathered in, Zambia, to argue about various African matters. The assembly formulated the 'Lusaka Manifesto', which was signed on 13 April by all of the countries in attendance, except for. This manifesto was later taken on by both the OAU and the United Nations.The Lusaka Manifesto summarised the political situations of self-governing African countries, snubbing racism and inequity, and calling for black majority rule in all African nations.
It did not rebuff South Africa entirely, though, adopting an appeasing manner towards the apartheid government, and even recognising its autonomy. Although African principals desired the emancipation of black South Africans, they trusted in their abilities to attain this in peaceable ways, intercession instead of militancy. The manifesto's signatories did not want to engage in a military war by supporting the liberation pugilists, because, for one thing, they could ill afford it and, for another, they dreaded retaliation. Morogoro Conference. Galil assault rifle, manufactured under license in South Africa as the R5were established as early as 1948, the Nationalist Prime Minister paying a visit to Israel and ignoring the clearly profile his own party earned during the 1930s and by its opposition to joining in the Anti-Hitlerite coalition in World War II. In 1963, Israel imposed an in compliance with, and recalled its ambassador.
During this period, Israel contributed an annual $7,000,000 in medical, agricultural, and other aid to Sub-Saharan states. In 1971, Israel offered $2,850 in aid to the. The aid was rejected, but the offer caused tension between and their government.After the 1967, however, Israel largely cut off humanitarian aid to Sub-Saharan Africa and became Pretoria's strategic partner, establishing strong economic and military relations with the 1975, which included alleged nuclear collaboration.Isolation. Diplomatic missions of South Africa in 1974While some countries and organizations, like the, supported the Apartheid government, most of the international community isolated South Africa. One of the primary means for the international community to show its aversion to apartheid was to South Africa in a variety of spheres of multinational life. Economic and military sanctions were among these, but cultural and sporting boycotts also found their way in. South Africa, in this way, was cut off from the rest of the globe.
It also awakened the South African community to the opinions of other countries. Despite financial shunning causing significant harm to black South Africans, the ANC proclaimed it as an essential means of achieving liberty. Cultural and sporting boycotts, on the other hand, did not have a negative effect on the lives of, as they were already barred from these by their own government.Sporting seclusion commenced in the mid-1950s and increased through the 1960s. Apartheid forbade multiracial sport, which meant that overseas teams, by virtue of their having players of diverse races, could not play in South Africa. In 1956, the severed its ties with the all-white South African Table Tennis Union, preferring the non-racial South African Table Tennis Board in its stead. The apartheid government came back by confiscating the passports of the Board's players so that they were unable to attend international games.
Other global sports unions followed the example, but they were sluggish in doing so.In 1959, the non-racial South African Sports Association (SASA) was shaped to secure the rights of all players on the global field. After meeting with no success in its endeavours to attain credit by collaborating with white establishments, SASA went to the (IOC) in 1962, calling for South Africa's eviction from the Olympic Games. The IOC sent South Africa a caution to the effect that, if there were no changes, it would be barred from the 1964 games. The changes were initiated, and in January 1963, the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC) was set up. The Anti-Apartheid Movement persisted in its campaign for South Africa's exclusion, and the IOC acceded in barring the country from the.
South Africa selected a multi-racial side for the next Games, and the IOC opted to incorporate her in the. Because of protests from AAMs and African nations, however, the IOC was forced to retract the invitation, along with one for.Foreign complaints about South Africa's bigoted sports brought more isolation. In 1960, barred a player from touring South Africa with the, and the tour was cancelled. Made a decision not to convey an authorised rugby team to South Africa again.
took Verwoerd's place as PM in 1966 and declared that South Africa would no longer dictate to other countries what their teams should look like. Although this reopened the gate for sporting meets, it did not signal the end of South Africa's racist sporting policies. In 1968, Vorster went against his policy by refusing to permit, a South African-born cricketer, to join the English cricket team on its tour to South Africa. Vorster said that the side had been chosen only to prove a point, and not on merit.
After protests, however, 'Dolly' was eventually included in the team; see the. Protests against certain tours brought about the cancellation of a number of other visits, like that of an England rugby team in 1969/70.As sporting segregation persisted, it became obvious that South Africa would have to make further changes to its sporting policies if it was to be recognised on the international stage.
More and more careers were impinged upon by segregation, and they began to stand up against apartheid. In 1971, Vorster altered his policies even further by distinguishing multiracial from multinational sport. Multiracial sport, between teams with players of different races, remained outlawed; multinational sport, however, was now acceptable: international sides would not be subject to South Africa's racial stipulations.International censure of segregated sport and calls for sporting sanctions persisted. The UN would continue to hold them against South Africa until the end of apartheid. These measures did not bring an end to international sport for South African teams, but they added very much to the country's seclusion. The bans were revoked in 1993, when conciliations for a democratic South Africa were well under way.In the 1960s, the Anti-Apartheid Movement worldwide began to campaign for cultural boycotts of apartheid South Africa. Artists were requested not to present or let their works be hosted in South Africa.
In 1963, 45 British writers put their signatures to an affirmation approving of the boycott, and, in 1964, American actor called for a similar affirmation for films. In 1965, the called for a proscription on the sending of films to South Africa.
Over sixty American artists signed a statement against apartheid and against professional links with the state. The presentation of some South African plays in Britain and America was also vetoed. After the arrival of in South Africa in 1975, the British Actors Union, boycotted the service, and no British program concerning its associates could be sold to South Africa. Sporting and cultural boycotts did not have the same impact as economic sanctions, but they did much to lift consciousness amongst normal South Africans of the global condemnation of apartheid.These facets of social remoteness from the worldwide hamlet made apartheid a discomfiture and were most trying for sports and culture fans.
These boycotts effectively egged on little changes to apartheid policy, and corroded white South Africans' dedication to it.Numerous conferences were held and the United Nations passed condemning South Africa, including the in 1978 and 1983. A significant started, pressuring investors to refuse to invest in South African companies or companies that did business with South Africa. South African sports teams were barred from participation in international events, and South African culture and tourism were.Countries such as Zambia, Tanzania and the Soviet Union provided military support for the ANC and PAC. It was more difficult, though, for neighbouring states such as Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, because they were economically dependent on South Africa. Still, they did feed the struggle underground.Ordinary people in foreign countries did much in protest against the apartheid government, too.
The British Anti-Apartheid Movement was one of these, organising boycotts against South African sports teams, South African products such as wine and fruit, and British companies that traded with or in South Africa. Other organisations were formed to prevent musicians and the like from coming into the country, and others raised funds for the ANC and PAC.After much debate, by the late 1980s the United States, the United Kingdom, and 23 other nations had passed laws placing various trade sanctions on South Africa. A movement in many countries was similarly widespread, with individual cities and provinces around the world implementing various laws and local regulations forbidding registered corporations under their jurisdiction from doing business with South African firms, factories, or banks.In an analysis of the effect of sanctions on South Africa by the, it was argued that they were not a leading contributor to the political reforms leading to the end of Apartheid. The analysis concluded that in many instances sanctions undermined effective reform forces, such as the changing economic and social order within South Africa.
Furthermore, it was argued that forces encouraging economic growth and development resulted in a more international and liberal outlook amongst South Africans, and were far more powerful agents of reform than sanctions.Western influence in apartheid. Swedish Prime Minister, rallied international opposition to ApartheidWhile international opposition to apartheid grew, the in particular provided both moral and financial support for the ANC.
On 21 February 1986– a week before he was murdered– 's prime minister made the address to the Swedish People's Parliament Against Apartheid held in. In addressing the hundreds of anti-apartheid sympathisers as well as leaders and officials from the ANC and the such as, Palme said Apartheid needed to be abolished, not reformed.Other Western countries adopted a more ambivalent position. In the 1980s, both the and administrations in the US and UK followed a ' policy with the apartheid government, vetoing the imposition of UN economic sanctions on South Africa, as they both fiercely believed in free trade and saw South Africa as a bastion against forces in Southern Africa. Thatcher declared the ANC a terrorist organisation, and in 1987 her spokesman, famously said that anyone who believed that the ANC would ever form the government of South Africa was 'living in cloud cuckoo land'.By the late 1980s, however, with the tide of the Cold War turning and no sign of a political resolution in South Africa, Western patience with the apartheid government began to run out. By 1989, a bipartisan / initiative in the US favoured (realised as the ), the release of and a negotiated settlement involving the ANC. Thatcher too began to take a similar line, but insisted on the suspension of the ANC's armed struggle.
Border War. Main article:By 1966, launched guerilla raids from neighbouring countries against South Africa's occupation of South-West Africa/. Initially South Africa fought a counter-insurgency war against SWAPO. But this conflict deepened after gained its independence in 1975 under Communist leadership, the, and South Africa promptly challenged them, allying with the Angolan rival party,. By the end of the 1970s, had joined the fray, in one of several late Cold War flashpoints throughout Southern Africa. This developed into a conventional war between South Africa and UNITA on one side against the Angolan government, the Cubans, the Soviets and SWAPO on the other side.Total onslaught By 1980, as international opinion turned decisively against the apartheid regime, the government and much of the white population increasingly looked upon the country as a besieged by communism and radical black nationalists.
Considerable effort was put into circumventing, and the government even went so far as to develop, allegedly with the help of. South Africa is the only country to date to have developed and voluntarily relinquished a nuclear arsenal.Negotiating majority rule with the ANC was not considered an option (at least publicly), and it left the government to defend the country against external and internal threats through sheer military might.
A siege mentality developed among whites, and, although many believed that a civil war against the black majority could not possibly be won, they preferred this to 'giving in' to political reform. Brutal police and military actions seemed entirely justifiable. Paradoxically, the international sanctions that cut whites off from the rest of the world enabled black leaders to develop sophisticated political skills as those in exile forged ties with both regional and world leaders.P. Botha initiated a policy of ', Total Strategy', whereby reform was mixed with repression.
With big businesses (affected by apartheid policies) ardently desirous of change, the government established two important commissions of enquiry. The concluded that blacks ought to be allowed to buy their own homes in urban areas, while the Wiehahn Commission dictated that black trade unions be given more freedom, more money be spent on black education and some apartheid legislation be abolished.The was repealed, while the pass laws and employment colour bar were relaxed. Fewer people were arrested for offences pertaining to the latter as segregation in everyday life was gradually lessened.
The government also gave so-called 'independence' to a number of the homelands, but this seems to have been in part due to the fact that, as foreign citizens, their people could no longer expect anything from the South African government. Indeed, none of these reforms lessened the power of the white minority.The term ' referred to countries in Southern Africa geographically near South Africa. Although these front-line states were all opposed to apartheid, many were economically dependent on South Africa. In 1980, they formed the (SADCC), the aim of which was to promote economic development in the region and hence reduce dependence on South Africa.
Furthermore, many SADCC members also allowed the exiled ANC and to establish bases in their countries.Other African countries also contributed to the fall of apartheid. In, Nigeria the Commonwealth Games because New Zealand's sporting contacts with the South African government were not considered to be in accordance with the 1977. Nigeria also led the 32-nation boycott of the because of British prime minister 's ambivalent attitude towards sporting links with South Africa, significantly affecting the quality and profitability of the Games and thus thrusting apartheid into the international spotlight. Cross-border raids South Africa had a policy to attack terrorist bases in neighbouring countries. These attacks were mainly aimed at ANC, PAC and SWAPO guerrilla-bases and safe houses in retaliation for acts of terror – like bomb explosions, massacres and guerrilla actions (like sabotage) by ANC, PAC and Swapo guerrillas in South Africa and Namibia. The country also aided organisations in surrounding countries who were actively combatting the spread of communism in Southern Africa.
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