This is what Apartheid was like

Well, they call(ed) them "kaffir", of course. Would be interested to know if "kaffir" also denotes something concrete other than that.



"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

First, the British created Apartheid in 1905 when they issued the General Pass Regulations Act (the Afrikaners had no say in that matter). This was done to secure control over all the people they brutally conquered after nearly a century of conquests. The Afrikaners (the Boere) actually fought with the natives against British rule.

It was the British that used the term "kaffir" to refer to black people. The word is Arabic for "heathen" or "infidel" and was used because the black people were not Christians. Today this is a very taboo word in SA.

The Afrikaners (the Boer Nationalists) continued with this term during when they took over the Apartheid system (they did not create it), but even during Apartheid this was not a polite word to use.

Today it is mostly used by the Boer Separatists who still want to live in their own nation and by the British elitists who still imagine themselves the superior people in the country.

This was no what apartheid was like. That is oversimplifying the message to the extent of distorting it.

Incidentally, what did White Americans call the African Americans that they kept in slavery?

End of Apartheid solved nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKKapY_1-TI