Hatred is deep and emotional. It’s an extreme dislike that can be directed against individuals. It’s also often associated with feelings of anger and a disposition towards hostility. Hate was the defining factor of apartheid in South Africa. Before the apartheid law was enforced there were many conflicts between the indigenous and the white migrants from Holland and Britain. The tension between black and whites built over years. Apartheid was a system of racial segregation that was used to classify people in South Africa. The races were classified by law into White, Black, Indian, and coloured groups, and then were separated, each with their own homelands and institutions. Like Nelson Mandela once said “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” He was a revolutionary leader fighting for multiracial democracy against apartheid in South Africa.
South Africa had been inhabited and controlled by Europeans who invaded the country. Europeans settled on the coast of South Africa on their eastern journey to Asia. The first to settle were the Portuguese, however they did not permanently resolve in South Africa; they used the coast of South Africa to further navigate their trip to Asia. The first to settle were the Dutch (Holland), who eventually transformed their settlement into a colony. The Dutch ended up developing a language from the influence of various groups and called it Afrikaans. That is where the Dutch started to refer themselves as Afrikaners or the Boers. As the Dutch began to colonize over the most of the coast of South Africa, the British began to enter. The British realized the advantages of having a colony and soon gained power of it over the Dutch in 1806. In 1814, the coast was then known as a British colony. The Dutch was unhappy with...