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South Africa during the twentieth century and its relations with Great Britain
Weselá, Petra ; Kochan, Jan (advisor) ; Kváča, Vladimír (referee)
This bachelor thesis describes political development in South Africa during the twentieth century and is fucused on relations with Great Britain. It describes relations between former British Empire and its former colony -- South Africa -- after gaining its independence. The main goal is to find out whether British influence on South Africa during the twentieth century (and also in comparison of situation till year 1948, during the apartheid regime and after the end of the regime) was or wasn't significant.
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The socio-economic and political development in South Africa between the years 1978-1989
Valentová, Martina ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Jakubec, Ivan (referee)
This work is devoted to analyzing the political and socio-economic development in South Africa between the years 1978-1989. At that time the apartheid regime was revised for the first time since its official introduction. This period of so-called reform apartheid is associated mainly with the Prime Minister Pieter Willem Botha, who began to reform apartheid in an attempt to retain political and economic power in the hands of white South Africans. In this paper I have attempted to define the causes, course and consequences of the reform effort that preceded the democratization process in the early 90s of the 20th Century.
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Business and Cultural Specialities of South Africa
Hančáková, Aneta ; Müllerová, Františka (advisor) ; Korandová, Jiřina (referee)
The first chapter is devoted to the basic information about South Africa - the characteristics of the state, its historical development, political system, foreign relations and economic situation. The second chapter summarises the foreign trade of the state - Southafrican import and export, and how the Czech Republic does business with South Africa. The last chapter is concentrated on the cultural specialities of South Africa. There is information about the inhabitants, religions, official languages, conception of the family, criminality, AIDS, public holidays, business etiquette and the comparison of the Czech and Southafrican cultures based on the Hofstede theory.
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The Economic Relations Between The South African Republic And Switzerland On The Background Of The Sanctions Of The UN Against The Apartheid Regime
Hőnigová, Nina ; Steinmetzová, Dana (advisor) ; Vondrušková, Barbora (referee)
The aim of this paper is to examine to which extend did the activities of the Swiss economic actors and the Swiss government help to maintain the apartheid regime in South Africa. It is focused on the famous Swiss banking sector and its relations with its Southafrican clients. One part of the paper is concentrated on the question of breaking the sanctions adopted by the Security Council of the UN, which should have helped to undermine the local rasist regime. The crucial issue in this problematic is to make clear if one non-UN-memberlaw-breaker could be really able to ensure the survival of the weakened regime. I discuss the relevance of the financial and economic cooperation between the SAR and Switzerland and try to show, that Swiss activities really provided the badly needed capital and foreign currencies to the regime in the period of its deepest crisis.But on the other hand that Switzerland was not the only one business partner of the apartheid regime among the western powers and that the decisive role in its elimination was besides sanctions played mainly by other factors. The lack of any obligation for the UN-member states of respecting the sanctions, a great degree of invention on the side of the SAR when replacing the import from its former partners and other belong among them.
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