WORLD HISTORY

WORLD WAR II

DECOLONIZATION PHASE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was one factor that contributed to the downfall of apartheid in the Republic of South Africa?
A
The African National Congress was outlawed
B
Afrikaners demanded that only they should have ruling power.
C
Many foreign countries boycotted South African products.
D
President de Klerk and Desmond Tutu were imprisoned.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Years of violent internal protest, weakening white commitment, international economic and cultural sanctions, economic struggles, and the end of the Cold War brought down white minority rule in Pretoria.

Detailed explanation-2: -The academic boycott of South Africa comprised a series of boycotts of South African academic institutions and scholars initiated in the 1960s, at the request of the African National Congress, with the goal of using such international pressure to force the end to South Africa’s system of apartheid.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Anti-Apartheid Movement was instrumental in initiating an academic boycott of South Africa in 1965. The declaration was signed by 496 university professors and lecturers from 34 British universities to protest against apartheid and associated violations of academic freedom.

Detailed explanation-4: -Complete Answer: The struggle against apartheid was begun by the most famous leader Nelson Mandela, who afterward became the symbol of the anti-Apartheid struggle. People stood against this act in the name of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM). White South Africans monopolized control over the state and the economy.

Detailed explanation-5: -Racial segregation existed in South Africa in the form of the Apartheid. It existed in South Africa till the 1990s. This discriminatory system in South Africa ended due to a campaign by Nelson Mandela.

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