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Anti-racism Day

On March 2, 1952, the United Nations General Assembly discussed the issue of apartheid and regarded it as a threat for peace and human rights. But the South African government did not allow the committee tasked to study this issue to enter this country. 
Since 1652, when the Dutch stepped foot on Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, the name of South Africa has been accompanied by racism and black slavery. European migrants, who were called the Blonds and later the Africans, slaved the blacks in the ranches and traded them with the land. In 1948, after World War II, apartheid and segregation turned into the official policy of South Africa.
The African National Congress that was established in 1912 to fight against apartheid and gain political rights for blacks, in 1992, after decades of struggle, succeeded to force the whites to participate in a referendum that paved the way for constitutional change in order to allow blacks to take part in the government.After the referendum, Nelson Mandela won the 1994 presidential elections and hence the policy of apartheid was wiped out of this country.

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