South Africa under apartheid

There are many who would try and argue that South Africa was a success under apartheid. Well, if you were White, yes, it was a success. If you were Black, apartheid was basically a form of racist fascism. You can look at my last blog post and see the policies implemented. Policies that required Blacks and other non-White ethnic groups to carry passes stating where they could go, where they were from, their racial classification. Who is a government to tell you where you can and can't live. So what if there were different languages and different ethnic groups? It was under British colonialism that the Cape Colony and Zululand were annexed. Someone else coming and and annexing where you live, and then telling you "you can't live there, you must live there". Sounds like fascism. The Group Areas Act of 1950 basically said where each race was allowed to live. The most developed areas were restricted for White persons and Blacks were not allowed to live their, unless they were live-in servants. There was further legislation that allowed for the government to come in and destroy places where Black people were living. Yes, these were slums, but still, who is the government to come in and destroy where you are living? What would have been more helpful is to upgrade the places Blacks were living in and no forced relocation.
Education was affected to. The Bantu Education Act of 1953 made education segregated racially, by force. To give an idea of how education was like under apartheid and the inequalities, this is a quote from former Prime Minister Henrik Verwoerd:
"There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of teaching the Bantu child mathematics when it cannot use it in practice? That is quite absurd. Education must train people in accordance with their opportunities in life, according to the sphere in which they live".

Those were his words. Verwoerd didn't believe in equal opportunity for all, or for helping Black people getting training in skilled trades or getting higher education such as at the university level. That was the idea. Blacks were taught a curriculum that was like that of White children. Still, 30% of Black schools didn't have electricity, 1/4 didn't have running water and half of them didn't have plumbing. Per capita, less money was spent educating Black students than on educating White students. Blacks received on tenth of the spending White students received. Blacks, Indians, and Coloured had to pay for their education as well. For White children, it was free.
Under apartheid, you could be forcefully removed from certain places and placed in other areas. A grim example of this is Dimbaza. In the late 1960's, there was a forced removal of Blacks to an area known as Dimbaza. This area,well, there wasn't any good drinking water and it was hard to grow food. 968 people starved to death, many were children. If you were Black under apartheid, your life would indeed by harder than a White person's life. You would not be treated equally. The government basically practiced racism and fascism. South Africa may have been the richest nation in Africa, but if you were Black, you were basically treated like crap.