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Apartheid South Africa, 2005.
An analysis of the homeland system (aka Bantustans) in Apartheid South Africa.
1,600 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 84.95
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This paper examines how Apartheid was founded on the principle of segregation thus, in order for a race or 'nation' to progress and prosper it should be separated from other races or 'nations'. It looks at how this has led to what is more commonly know as "Homelands" or Bantustans. It also attempts to analyse what really was the homeland system, why it was necessary and why was it such a failure.
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"By removal of blacks from white areas it would create a surplus of jobs for whites, thus the government saw it necessary to do so in order to protect certain classes of whites. By moving Africans into homelands, it would restrict mobility into white areas and in turn, the threat of cheap labour as a substitute would be eradicated. But on the other hand the idea of moving industries to the white side of the border of the homelands or by moving them into the interior of the homelands would provide a large amount of cheap labour thus cutting costs and, at the same time eradicating the number of blacks living in urban areas. Agricultural land owned by blacks in South Africa was expropriated and farmers paid little compensation for their losses."
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Apartheid and the History of South Africa, 2006.
A study of the history of South Africa and the reign of apartheid.
7,200 words (approx. 28.8 pages), 5 sources, APA, AU$ 257.95
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This paper asserts that in order to understand the reasons and roots of apartheid, one must first understand the history of South Africa. The author therefore provides a detailed historical account of South Africa from the fifteenth century until today, including colonization, slavery, industrial development and the leadership of Hendrik French Verwoerd, the prime minister responsible for introducing apartheid. The second half of the paper is devoted to a study of the anti-apartheid movement, culminating in the election of Nelson Mandela.
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"Until the fifteenth century tribes in South Africa remained isolated from the rest of the world. However, late in the fifteenth century the Portuguese began to explore the western coastline of South Africa in search of an easier route to Asia. By1497, five years after Christopher Columbus had crossed the Atlantic under Portuguese patronage, Vasco da Gama led a Portuguese expedition that rounded the tip of South Africa, sailed along the east African coastline, and then crossed the Indian Ocean reaching Calicut, India."
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Apartheid in South Africa, 2005.
A discussion regarding the question of whether in the 1970s, General Motors should have opened a manufacturing plant in South Africa.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 42.95
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This paper considers a plan by General Motors as to whether or not to build a plant in South Africa in the 1970s to take advantage of the access to cheap labor. F\The paper discusses how from a social point of view though there are good reasons why GM might not want to take this action. For one thing blacks are paid far less than whites in South Africa for doing the same job and whites in South Africa are paid far less than a laborer in the United States.
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"African history after the arrival of Europeans was a history of racial attitudes continuing after the end of the colonial era. In the modern era, apartheid was the major social structure affecting every aspect of South African society and South African relations with other parts of the world. Historians do not agree on the reason for the development of apartheid. What is clear is that more and more laws were passed to enforce a division of the races. Blacks were subject to searches, needed passes, were restricted in where they could live and work, and were generally treated differently than whites. Both races, however, were prevented from mixing. General Motors must decide whether or not to build a manufacturing facility in apartheid South Africa. From a business point of view, this could be justified on the basis of access to cheap labor."
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19th Century South Africa Mining Industry and Apartheid, 1994.
This paper discusses the development of the South African mining industry in the 19th Century as a precursor to the development of apartheid in the 20th Century.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 10 sources, AU$ 76.95
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"The word apartheid, which was coined in the 1930s in South Africa's intellectual community, is an Afrikaans word meaning apartness, which is interpreted as segregation.. Apartheid was not applied as the name of a set of government policies until the 1950s, when the Afrikaaner Nationalist Party government elected in 1948 began to attain success in the pursuit of an agenda that eventually excluded all non.whites from effective participation in government, and in the initiation of other policies the principal objective of which was the complete social segregation of whites and non whites in the then Union of South Africa."
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South Africa: A Country Divided, 2007.
This paper examines elements of apartheid that still exist in South Africa.
1,271 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 4 sources, APA, AU$ 70.95
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This paper explores South Africa's experience as a divided nation and its process of recovery in the past two decades. First, the paper considers the issue of affirmative action in South Africa. The author then acknowledges that elements of apartheid still exist. In order to overcome this divisiveness, the author examines the experiences of other divided nations, such as Germany and Korea. The author concludes that apartheid in South Africa has not ended, but has merely gone 'underground' so that it can still be active but not in the overt sense that it used to be.
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"The promotion of a collective or a group identity, therefore, necessarily involves subordinating the individuality that is seen within the group. Furthermore, being able to strengthen one's identity based on race, religion, language, or caste is also considered divisive and threatening to the equality and the freedom of the country (Gramby-Sobukwe, 2002). Quotas are then viewed as being a means to help achieve an equality of outcome by working to deny an equality of opportunity or a fundamental right of various individuals (Gramby-Sobukwe, 2002)."
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Struggles within South Africa, 2002.
This paper is an investigation into the effect of colonization on South Africa and the people of South Africa.
4,134 words (approx. 16.5 pages), 13 sources, MLA, AU$ 177.95
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This is an in-depth paper of what the country of South Africa went through during the years of Dutch and British colonization. Discusses issues such as segregation, apartheid and freedom fighting. It begins with the Dutch colonization in 1652 and how this impacted the life of the African and Khoi Khoi natives. It examines how these early relationships gave rise to the hundreds of years of oppression and discrimination of the ruling white colonialist over the black natives. Studies these complex relationships until the time of the release of Nelson Mandela.
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"Colonization is defined by Webster?s Dictionary as an act or instance of colonizing. To South Africa and the South African people colonization has a much deeper and much more complex meaning. Colonization began in South Africa with the entrance of the Dutch in1652 and again with the British in 1806. The colonization by the Dutch was brought on by the need for a supply port to help ships sailing around the southern tip of the African continent. The Dutch?s philosophy regarding the indigenous African people was one of separation and isolation. The Dutch urged their colonist to stay away from the native people and try to have little or no contact or interaction with them. One of the first conflicts between African and Dutch interest occurred between the Dutch and the KhoiKhoi. This conflict began when the indigenous KhoiKhoi realized that the Dutch settlers were in South Africa to stay. The KhoiKhoi believed that the Dutch intended to continue encroaching on the farmlands of their people. This tension between the Dutch and Africans broke out into a war, which last four years. The KhoiKhoi resistance was stopped by the Dutch due to the superior tactics and superior weapons used by the Dutch army. This conflict was one of many in which the native Africans attempted to take back their homelands, but fell short of their goals. In 1806 the British seized control of the South African colony in order to utilize its location and natural resources. "
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Oppression and Transgression in South Africa, 2002.
An overview of the history of South Africa including Apartheid and various acts of resistance.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 142.95
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This paper will examine the history of South Africa in the twentieth century. With an emphasis upon its recent history, it will be argued that we may understand the history of the resistance against Apartheid only by appreciating its complexity. It will begin with a discussion of the origins of the racist state in 1910, and early responses to racist oppression on the part of groups such as the African National Congress that was formed in 1912. It will be shown how this resistance gradually evolved from peaceful protest to violent struggle in reaction to the casual brutalities of the racist system, which was punctuated by random atrocities such as the Sharpeville Massacre. It will be seen that the resistance against Apartheid was also fought on other fronts; most significantly in the form of the economic pressure and sanctions exerted against the regime by both domestic and foreign opponents.
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Media Policy in South Africa, 2007.
An analysis of media policy in South Africa and a comparison of media performance standards in Britain, Italy and Germany.
3,606 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 161.95
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This paper explains that one of the main roles of the press in any democracy is that of a public watchdog that is vigilant over government activities on behalf of the people that government serves. The paper focuses on South Africa as a point of reference and refers to the history of South African policy as well as certain European media policy counterparts, in order to gauge standards of media performance.
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Introduction
Media and Democracy
Media Policy in South Africa
External Media Policy
Policy Formulation Aspects
Internal Media Policy
Policy Formulation Aspects
The Gate keeping Function
European Media Policy
United Kingdom Media Policy
Italian Media Policy
German Media Policy
South African Media Policy History
Apartheid Era
After Apartheid
Comparison
Conclusion
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"One of the main roles that the press plays in any democracy is that of a public watchdog that is vigilant over government activities on behalf of the people that government serves (Krimsky, 2000). The media is a fundamental tool in the decision-making of the democratic government in any country. A democracy requires the people of the state to make choices and decisions on a daily basis. This therefore needs to be aided by a media and media environment that allows for objectivity through its content and the journalists and staff of the forms of media themselves. The media needs to inform, without judging (Krimsky, 2000)."
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Economic Development in South Africa, 2005.
An analysis of economic strategy and development for poor countries, particularly South Africa.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 99.95
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This paper considers the best economic strategy for poor countries to develop and applies this to South Africa. The paper notes the need for an infrastructure and for foreign investment from multinational enterprises in particular, with South Africa having to overcome the economic damage done by the long-term and now abandoned policy of apartheid, which contributed to the high unemployment and poverty facing the country.
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"Economic development is a subject of study in the West and a vital necessity for the poor countries of the world. Technology is identified as one of the four key elements for a country to generate a higher standard of living, along with natural resources, capital, and a skilled workforce. Emerging nations today can take full advantage of the technological developments that have been made by developed nations (Mobius 37). A country like South Africa has particular difficulty today because of the long neglect of proper development during the decades of apartheid, when racial divisions created a lopsided economic system where whites benefited and blacks did not."
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Labor and Industrial Relations in South Africa, 2008.
A discussion of the impact of the unique political and socio-economic situation in South Africa on labor relations and human resource management.
771 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 8 sources, APA, AU$ 44.95
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This paper examines how South Africa's unique cultural, socio-economic, and political situation imposes difficult challenges for labor relations and human resource management. The paper explains that since the end of apartheid, the country has faced the problem of how to bring about substantive equality, including economic equality. The paper then looks at how the new South African government eschewed the redistribution approach, and instead opted to implement systematic and sometimes extreme forms of affirmative action. The paper also points out that a good example of the affirmative action policies the new South African government put in place is the Black Economic Empowerment initiative (BEE), which was established with the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act in 2004. The writer believes that this initiative is a good one from a human rights perspective. However, from a human resources point of view, the challenge of this situation must be that artificially speeding up the promotion of people who have been systematically denied good education for so long, creates a danger that under-qualified people will be in management positions. The paper concludes that the problem of providing adequate training for people who have for so long been excluded from management positions is likely the biggest current problem facing human resources managers, as South Africa continues to change towards becoming a normal society.
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"However, despite such descriptions, this initiative does primarily aim to improve the economic lot of blacks - given that it is they who suffer most from inequality. It does this with measures such as legislation and regulation, which aim among other things to put more blacks in management. For example, there is the balanced scorecard, which assesses whether there is sufficient black ownership of companies, sufficient black senior management, sufficient black human resource development and employment equity, etc. These factors are imposed as codes on state bodies, public companies and foreign investment companies. How well companies do on the score card affects vital economic factors, such as whether they are awarded contracts (Alexander, 2004)."
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Imprint of Imperialism in South Africa, 2005.
Examines the role of literature in presenting the inconsistencies of stereotyping and racism in South Africa.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 114.95
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This is a thematic paper based on the example of South Africa's imperialism and beyond, in Apartheid and anti-Apartheid movement, and correlations in a global Black Power movement of different manifestations. Through various points in the paper, a warning is made of the perils of including racial categories in future thinking, in the need for humanism as opposed to new categories or patterns as guidelines for assessing conflict in the future. The paper shows that there is a clear role for the artist and writer in presenting the inconsistencies of humanity and the need to guard against stereotypes of every variety.
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"Imperialism in South Africa produced archaic institutions that till the late 20th century, remained in effect, and in particularly South African forms. From the 1652 landing on the Cape, the Dutch put in place the foundations of a society distinguishing European and African, towards what Dunbar Moodie would describe in the 20th century as an Afrikaner 'civil religion'. (1975) When South Africa became part of the British Empire, different Afrikaner attitudes, practices and institutions were carried over, combined with Victorian British ideas of how colonies ought to be organized, and reinforcing a social order according to race that drew much from Social Darwinism as it shaped metropolitan British culture of the day."
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South Africa, 2005.
An historical review of politics in South Africa.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 71.95
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This paper looks at the history of South Africa. It discusses the country's mineral wealth yet its economic poverty. It then analyzes its history of slavery and apartheid. The paper discusses the release of Nelson Mandela from prison and how he has led the people since then.
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"The Situation of South Africa South Africa has a unique history, which in many ways, forms a paradox. This forms a topic of interest for scholars, who study South Africa, readers, who see examples of South Africa from novels such as Alan Paton's Cry the Beloved Country, and firsthand accounts, those South Africans who live a life surrounded by poverty. South Africa is a land of extensive mineral wealth--in fact, it is the world's leading producer of such as gold and diamonds--the very symbols of wealth. It is home to some of the world's oldest fossils, and is home to a wide range of agricultural crops, and exports goods as well. South Africa also has a wide supply of coal and uranium for energy. This is a portrait of a country who sounds quite wealthy, but here again is an example of the paradox that surrounds South Africa. "
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Levi Strauss in South Africa, 2005.
The paper analyzes the Levi Strauss Company's proposed move into the South African market.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 99.95
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This paper considers the move of Levi Strauss into the market in South Africa and the possible affects due to the fact that South Africa is a signatory to GATT. The paper notes that the company is now planning to expand its business to the Southern African region via South Africa and considers the fact that previously South Africa was a country shunned by much of the world for its policy of apartheid. However, this boycott has now been lifted. The history of the Levi Strauss Company is also mentioned.
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"The Levi Strauss Company was founded in 1853 by Bavarian immigrant Levi Strauss, and the company today is one of the world's largest brand-name apparel marketers, with sales in more than 110 countries. Levi's apparel products are sold under the Levi's, Dockers, and Levi Strauss Signature brands. In 1873, Levi Strauss and Nevada tailor Jacob Davis patented the process of putting rivets in pants for strength, creating the world's first jeans. The Levi's trademark is today one of the most recognized in the world and is registered in more than 160 countries (About LS&Co., 2005, paras. 1-3). The company employs approximately 8,850 people worldwide, with the company organized into three geographic divisions: Levi Strauss, North America, Europe, and Asia. The company is now planning to expand its business to the Southern African region via South Africa."
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South Africa's New Imperialism, 2006.
This paper examines the role of the British government in southern Africa during the phase of "New Imperialism" between 1880-1900.
1,604 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 84.95
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This paper details the impact of the British government's involvement in southern Africa during the phase of new imperialism between
1880-1900, in which various European governments began to scramble for land in the region. This paper explores Britain's interests in southern Africa, which were heightened with the discovery of prolific deposits of gold and diamonds. The writer discusses the lack of investment into the local economy which combined with a policy of black segregation and the enforced migration of labor, created a situation of devastating poverty among the black Africans. This paper paper also focuses on the segregation policies of the diamond mines which set a direct precedence for the establishment of the apartheid policy in the South African government.
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"An interesting feature of the diamond industry was the unmarketability of the gems. They were luxury items that held varying degrees of popularity in Europe at the time, and the responsibility for the successful sale of diamonds rested on the shoulders of London merchants. What resulted was an increased financial involvement between British businessmen at home and overseas, thus strengthening British private investments in the region. Politically, the British were unwilling to provide their annexed territories with ample governmental administration. Instead, they preferred to rely on the cooperation of the local white population."
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Political Development In India And South Africa, 2002.
Discusses the political development of the two countries in terms of political development theories.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 9 sources, AU$ 89.95
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Discusses political development of the two countries in terms of political developoment theories. Characteristics of the experiences of both countries. India's development since independence as a state of transition; fragmented political parties;social discontent. India as a bureaucratism-authoritarianism model. Political changes in South Africa since the end of apartheid. Limited movement toward democracy.
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"South Africa, India, and Political Development
The process of political development has been theorized by Howard J. Wrarda (2000) as falling within one of several alternative developmental theories. These theories include bureaucratic-authoritarianism (BA), world systems, corporatism, political economy, state-society relations, indigenous theories of change, rational choice theory, and the new institutionalism. Wrarda (2000) believes that this assortment of political development theories emerged because of a realization that the traditional, formal-legal approach dominating the field was inadequate to explain contemporary political development paradigms. This report will consider political development in India and South Africa and characterize these states' experiences in the context of the most applicable ..."
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South Africa: The Effects of Foreign Investment, 2001.
4,125 words (approx. 16.5 pages), 11 sources, AU$ 177.95
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This research paper discusses the effects on foreign investment on government policies in South Africa, historically and with special reference to the post-apartheid period (1993-present).
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"Even since it became a part of the global economy, foreign investment, both portfolio and direct investment, has played a critical role in the development of South Africa's mineral rich economy and has impacted the nature of that nation's political and social structure. The enforced segregation and backwardness of South Africa's black and colored (mixed race) and majority population, and the accompanying system of political and legal oppression (apartheid) was a logical consequence of the manner in which foreign and domestic capital was employed. By the mid-1980s South Africa's social structure inhibited the health of the economy and hastened the end of apartheid. The new, black-African dominated government led by President Nelson Mandela after the 1994 elections was faced with unpleasant policies because of the effects of apartheid. It has thus far opted for policies that have been designed to encourage foreign investment in South Africa; however, not much new foreign investment has entered the country since 1994 and conditions have only improved marginally for the black and colored majority. This leaves open the possibility that serious conflicts will arise between the interests of private foreign investment and other sectors of the economy. "
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