Ethnic Violence in South Africa
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Ethnic violence between majority ethnic groups has been going on between conflicting groups in South Africa for as long as anyone can remember and has taken more than a quarter million lives. Ethnic violence has displaced more than 800,000 people within the past decade alone. The South African government does not support ethnic violence, or racial segregation, and is taking steps to break it up.
Since 1990, a plan to progressively dismantle the racial segregation in the country was begun under President de Klerk. The ANC ban was lifted and Nelson Mandela was released. In 1994 there was the first multiracial election, monitored by the UN and won by the ANC, leading to the Government of National Unity headed by Mandela. Over 16,000 civilians were estimated to have died in the political violence between 1983 and 1994. By finally doing away with this violence, South Africa can achieve the much wanted unity it, and the people within it, have been hoping to achieve for many years already.
Ethnic violence is one of the worst things the world has ever seen. South Africa, as a government, must rid themselves of these deadly and costly practices in order to achieve a favorable status to countries either allowing ethnic violence to take place, or not doing enough to stop it entirely...