Apartheid in South Africa 1982
In white-ruled South Africa, black people are denied their basic human and political rights, their labour are exploited, and their lives segregated, precarious and fearful. In 1982 almost one million of them are to be transferred to Swaziland without any say in the matter. That is the tyranny of apartheid, of the racism made law, of a system under which a small white minority holds all economic and political power, and dictates in the minutest detail how and where the large black majority will live, work and die. It is this system of institutional 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. It must be brought to an end before it erupts into a racial war between "whites" and "black" that would have tragic consequences for the whole world. Location: Johannesburg, South Africa Date: 01 January 1982
Courtesy of the United Nations
Related to content on pages 70-71 of Chapter 3 of The Threat of Race
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