Law 19983 on

Apartheid was a political and social system in South Africa while it was under white minority rule.This was in use in the 20th century, from 1948 to 1994.^[1] Racial segregation had been used for centuries but the new policy started in 1948 was stricter and more systematic.

In the system, the people of South Africa were divided by their race and the races were forced to live apart from each other. There were laws that kept up the racial separation. The system of apartheid in South Africa was banned in 1994. The last president under apartheid was Frederik Willem de Klerk.^[2] After this, Nelson Mandela became the first black president.^[3][4] Both were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts.^[5] Today, the term apartheid is sometimes used to speak about similar systems in other countries.

The aim of apartheid was to separate the people of South Africa into small independent nations. The black ones were called Bantustans. South Africa said they were independent countries and exchanged ambassadors but other countries did not. The National Party government did not want to spend a lot of money on this project. Also, they wanted to keep the majority of South Africa's land for white people, especially the richest places, like the gold mines ofJohannesburg. They wanted black men to work in these mines for little money but their families had to live far away.

Main:

Bantu Stephen Biko: He was a black political leader who wanted to bring together the black and white people of South Africa. He is married with Ntsiki and has two children. He is a banned person which means that he can only be in his banning area and he is able to speak only with one person except his family. He is a dramatic (seen in action when avoiding the law), round (now everything what he do), static (live and died witn the same idea of black and whithe people) and he was the protagonist (change Donald´s mind to help him fightinf for black freedom) character.

Donald Woods: He was married with Wendy and has five children. Woods was forty-two years old. He weared glasses. He was the editor of the Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He was then named Father David Curren. He is a dramatic (seen in action when escaping), round (now everything), developing (first he thought in no black concious and then he decided helping Biko -a black man) and he is the protagonist (hero of the story when he is escaping) character.