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Apartheid (/ əˈpɑːrt (h) aɪt / ə-PART- (h)yte, especially South African English: / əˈpɑːrt (h) eɪt / ə-PART- (h)ayt, Afrikaans: [aˈpart (ɦ)ɛit] ⓘ; transl. "separateness", lit. 'aparthood') was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa [a] (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. [note ...
Apartheid, or “apartness” in the language of Afrikaans, was a system of legislation that upheld segregation against non-white citizens of South Africa. After the National Party gained power...
apartheid, policy that governed relations between South Africa ’s white minority and nonwhite majority for much of the latter half of the 20th century, sanctioning racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
Translated from the Afrikaans meaning 'apartness', apartheid was the ideology supported by the National Party (NP) government and was introduced in South Africa in 1948. Apartheid called for the separate development of the different racial groups in South Africa.
Though apartheid was supposedly designed to allow different races to develop on their own, it forced Black South Africans into poverty and hopelessness. “Grand” apartheid laws focused on keeping...
A Look Back at South Africa Under Apartheid, Twenty-Five Years After Its Repeal. Segregated public facilities, including beaches, were commonplace, but even today, the inequality persists....
9 May 2024. It's been thirty years since apartheid ended in South Africa. Apartheid was a racist system that treated black people differently to white people. It kept black people separate...
The formal end of the apartheid government in South Africa was hard-won. It took decades of activism from both inside and outside the country, as well as international economic pressure, to...
How Nelson Mandela fought apartheid—and why his work is not complete. This activist dedicated his life to dismantling racism—and went from being the world’s most famous political prisoner to...
One of the first—and most violent—demonstrations against apartheid took place in Sharpeville on March 21, 1960; the police response to the protesters’ actions was to open fire, killing about 69 Black Africans and wounding many more.