History 1989 South Africa
Essay
1989, it was the climax of the apartheid era. This was the year that apartheid took turn for the better, for the better of the people and society. It was the year the oppressed gradually transformed into the democratic citizens of South Africa. It was the year F.W de Klerk took over to make South Africa into a better country, a democratic county, a country where citizens could finally stand up to apartheid. Apartheid has brought struggle and tension between different races but today it has made us grateful for the deeds our apartheid fighters has done for the freedom we have and share today.
1989 P.W Botha resigned due to a stroke thus therefore allowing F.W de Klerk to take power of South Africa. He was the man that helped us build the foundation to the success of our democratic country we live in today. He was the man that gave our apartheid fighters the permission to protest against apartheid. He was the man that released the political prisoners even Nelson Mandela. He is one of the reasons we live in a society where we have our rights and are able to use them. 1989 was the year that all fighting and protesting had paid off and what is ironic is that de Klerk was a white man but yet he never continued the reign of apartheid. The ANC and NP found common ground in this year and this was the beginning of a rainbow nation. The years 1989 to 1991 experienced some earth shaking events in the global geo-political power equation. The world witnessed the breaching of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. The Communist regimes in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, and Romania collapsed. Dubcek and Havel, former prisoners of the communist regime, were together welcomed by huge crowds; whilst in Romania, the huddled bodies of the Ceaucescus lay in a snowy courtyard; in Tianamen Square screams and tracer bullets broke the night's silence. All these were symptoms of the extraordinary drama that welcomed the last decade of the millennium. The release
1989, it was the climax of the apartheid era. This was the year that apartheid took turn for the better, for the better of the people and society. It was the year the oppressed gradually transformed into the democratic citizens of South Africa. It was the year F.W de Klerk took over to make South Africa into a better country, a democratic county, a country where citizens could finally stand up to apartheid. Apartheid has brought struggle and tension between different races but today it has made us grateful for the deeds our apartheid fighters has done for the freedom we have and share today.
1989 P.W Botha resigned due to a stroke thus therefore allowing F.W de Klerk to take power of South Africa. He was the man that helped us build the foundation to the success of our democratic country we live in today. He was the man that gave our apartheid fighters the permission to protest against apartheid. He was the man that released the political prisoners even Nelson Mandela. He is one of the reasons we live in a society where we have our rights and are able to use them. 1989 was the year that all fighting and protesting had paid off and what is ironic is that de Klerk was a white man but yet he never continued the reign of apartheid. The ANC and NP found common ground in this year and this was the beginning of a rainbow nation. The years 1989 to 1991 experienced some earth shaking events in the global geo-political power equation. The world witnessed the breaching of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. The Communist regimes in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, and Romania collapsed. Dubcek and Havel, former prisoners of the communist regime, were together welcomed by huge crowds; whilst in Romania, the huddled bodies of the Ceaucescus lay in a snowy courtyard; in Tianamen Square screams and tracer bullets broke the night's silence. All these were symptoms of the extraordinary drama that welcomed the last decade of the millennium. The release