How Is Invictus Be Used As A Historical Source?

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Good morning/afternoon Mr Kay and class. Today I am going to talk to you about the movie “Invictus” and discuss to see if this movie represents true historical events and see if “Invictus” can be used as a historical source. “Invictus” is a reliable film that is based on Nelson Mandela’s fight against apartheid which was a system of racial segregation in South Africa. In the mid-1990s, Mandela was trying to inspire and change the minds of the people of South Africa to end apartheid to live in a society where black and white people all live equally. This argument will be supported by discussing about what apartheid is, what Mandela did to fight against apartheid and finally, how he inspired the Springboks.

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During the 1940s the Afrikaner National Party was able to gain a substantial majority. Strategists in the National Party constituted apartheid so that they could make sure that they would be able to manage the economic and social system. With the adoption of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was assimilated (www-cs-students.stanford.edu, 2014). Race laws that were enforced during the apartheid touched and affected every facet of the black South Africans lives. This is seen in the film when Mandela has white South Africans working as hid security guards alongside with the black South Africans, which supports my hypothesis. SCREENSHOT SCENE/S. By 1970 there had been a total of 20 different laws that had been enforced on black (Mtholyoke.edu, 2014). South

Apartheid had officially begun in 1948 where the black Africans and the white minority were separated. The black majority were not permitted to live, own land or do businesses in a white area (BBC News, 2013). There were also separate public facilities, transport and school for the black majority in the apartheid era. Interracial marriage was also band (BBC News, 2013). At the very start of the film, “Invictus” there is a scene where Mandela is driving past two fields, one field for the black Africans and one field for the white Africans. There is a clearly differences in each of the rugby fields they train or play on. The white have a much cleaner and well-looked after field compared to the dirt that the black Africans play on. Passbooks were required for any black person who is over the age of 16 years, the passbook would allow them to leave their district to travel to non-black areas (www-cs-students.stanford.edu, 2014). The 9 provinces in South Africa were divided into 53 different districts (Wikipedia, 2014). Employers were not permitted to pay black Africans the same rates as a white person, even if they do the same work and work for the same amount of hours. White men were not permitted to teach black men how to read (BBC News, 2013). Laws made the white minority living in South Africa superior, whereas the black majority would be discriminated in every single aspect of