The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution denouncing apartheid in South Africa on November 6, 1962, and urging all of its members to sever all military and economic ties with the nation.
Apartheid, which was in place in South Africa from 1948 to 1993, was a system of racial segregation that was sanctioned by the government and included political and economic discrimination against the country’s non-white majority. Apartheid was one of many forms of injustice that forced black people into slavery. In South Africa to live in separate areas and they were unable to enter alive eggs only unless they have a special permit, although the eggs in South Africa represent only a small percentage of the population, but they own the vast majority of the country’s lands and wealth, according to the website Hittori.
After the 1960 massacre of defenseless demonstrators in Sharpeville near Johannesburg, South Africa, in which 69 people were killed and more than 180 others were wounded, the international movement to end the apartheid has gained widespread support. A few Western nations or other significant trading partners, however, preferred South Africa to impose a complete economic or military embargo on the nation.
However, the UN has become increasingly opposed to apartheid, and in 1973 a resolution was published that classified the practise as a “crime against humanity.” South Africa’s General Assembly membership was suspended in 1974.
Many apartheid laws were repealed by 1990 as a result of years of strikes, punishments, and violent protests.
The South African government finally invalidated all remaining apartheid legislation in 1991, under the administration of President F. De Clerek, and pledged to drafting a new constitution.
Multi-ethnic political parties supported a transitional government in 1993, and South Africa held its first really free elections the following year.
The new president of South Africa is political activist Nelson Mandela, who served 27 years in prison alongside other anti-apartheid figures after being found guilty of treason.
The United Nations denounces apartheid in South Africa on this day.
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