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What was the apartheid system?
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What was the apartheid system?
Manuela Prieto
Salvador Galant
Apartheid
Definition
System for keeping white people and nonwhites separated in South Africa.
Definition
Duration
It lasted from about 1950 to the early 1990s.
Duration
Aim
Divided South Africans into four groups: white, Bantu (black), Colored (of mixed descent), and Asian.
Aim
Segregtion
The policy created separate areas in cities for each group. Members of a group were not allowed to live, operate businesses, or own land outside of their area.
Segregation
Controversy
With the support of some whites, many blacks in South Africa protested against apartheid. The African National Congress (ANC) led the fight. The protests sometimes turned violent.
Controversy
Examples
A district called Soweto rioted in 1976 against a requirement that blacks learn Afrikaans. Other countries also condemned apartheid. In 1985 Great Britain and the United States restricted trade with South Africa.
Example
Outcome
The South African government granted nonwhites some rights in the late 1980s.
Outcome
1990–91
The government led by President F.W. de Klerk ended most of the apartheid laws.
1990–91
1994
Even all races were allowed to vote and Apartheid was over, its effects remained. Racial discrimination continued in South Africa.