WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After the National Party gained power in South Africa in 1948, its all-white government immediately began enforcing existing policies of racial segregation. Under apartheid, nonwhite South Africans-a majority of the population-were forced to live in separate areas from whites and use separate public facilities.

Detailed explanation-2: -They were forbidden from living in white areas. They could work in white areas only if they had a permit. Trains, buses, taxis, hotels, hospitals, schools and colleges, libraries, cinema halls, theatres, beaches, swimming pools, public toilets, were all separate for the whites and blacks. This was called segregation.

Detailed explanation-3: -At its core, apartheid was all about racial segregation. It led to political and economic discrimination which separated Black (or Bantu), Coloured (mixed race), Indian, and White South Africans.

Detailed explanation-4: -The implementation of apartheid, often called “separate development” since the 1960s, was made possible through the Population Registration Act of 1950, which classified all South Africans as either Bantu (all Black Africans), Coloured (those of mixed race), or white.

Detailed explanation-5: -Apartheid was a system of racial discrimination/segregation that was unique to South Africa and was imposed by the white Europeans settled in South Africa. This system divided the people and labelled them as whites and non-whites on the basis of their skin colour.