The Economics of Apartheid and Mandela's Struggle for Freedom

Abstract

The white governance in South Africa clearly underestimated the social and economic costs of racial segregation despite already celebrated pieces on the economics of discrimination. In the year 1893 when Mr. M. K. Gandhi was thrown out of the first class compartment in the Pietermaritzburg station of Kwazulu-Natal province of South Africa on his way to Pretoria, Mr. Nelson Mandela had not been born. That both these personalities became household names within the next five decades in their respective tirades to stop oppression against the natives of their countries was not a mere accident of nature.