WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Apartheid, the Afrikaans name given by the white-ruled South Africa’s Nationalist Party in 1948 to the country’s harsh, institutionalized system of racial segregation, came to an end in the early 1990s in a series of steps that led to the formation of a democratic government in 1994.

Detailed explanation-2: -The National Party (Afrikaans: Nasionale Party, NP), also known as the Nationalist Party, was a political party in South Africa founded in 1914 and disbanded in 1997. The party was an Afrikaner ethnic nationalist party that promoted Afrikaner interests in South Africa.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following statements best describes South Africa’s political system during apartheid? It was democratic for whites, resembling a parliamentary democracy, but excluded most other South Africans.

Detailed explanation-4: -Which best describes the period of apartheid in South Africa? The ruling minority instituted a policy of racial discrimination.

Detailed explanation-5: -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 in South Africa in 1948, its all-white government immediately began enforcing existing policies of racial segregation.