Apartheid

• System of racial segregation in South Africa
• enforced through legislation (Gesetzgebung) by the National Party (NP)
• National Party: governing party from 1948 to 1994
• began in colonial times under Dutch Empire until 1795 when the British took over the Cape of Good Hope
• was officially introduced after the general elections of 1948
• inhabitants were classified into 4 racial groups: 1. whites 2. black 3. coloured 4. Indian
• non-white South Africans were removed from their homelands and forced into segregated neighborhoods
• one of the largest mass removals in modern history
• the government segregated: 1. education 2. medical care 3. public facilities
• black people were provided with services inferior to those of white
• anti-apartheid leaders were imprisoned and the opposition was banned/forbidden