Amandla: Ngawethu definition
Amandla: Ngawethu means power to the people. We have similar strug- gles now in South Africa, for improved service delivery and against crime and corruption, to what we had then against the brutality of apartheid ideology. The possibility that any person was seen as superior only be- cause of the color of their skin is unbelieveable; every law in South Africa favoured the minority of people who were white, and denigrated peo- ple of colour and indigenous people as second and third class citizens. Apartheid was declared a crime against humanity by the United Nations in 1966, yet the regime was respected by its allies in the west and the south too:; the apartheid government had good relations with many South American dictators. As the apartheid government became weaker, it became more brutal.