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VIDEOS OF APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA
Apartheid (segregation,
"aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South
Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from
1948 until the early 1990s.
Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap
(or white supremacy), which ensured that South Africa
was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority
white population.
According to this system of social stratification, white citizens had the
highest status, followed in descending order by Asians, Coloureds,
and black Africans.
The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to the present
day.
Broadly speaking, apartheid was delineated into petty
apartheid, which entailed the segregation of public facilities and social
events, and grand apartheid, which dictated housing and employment
opportunities by race. Prior to the 1940s, some aspects of apartheid had already emerged in the form
of minority
rule by white South Africans and the socially enforced separation of black
Africans from other races, which later extended to pass laws
and land apportionment.
Apartheid was adopted as a formal policy by the South African government after
the ascension of the National Party (NP) during the 1948 general elections.
Between
1987 and 1993, the National Party entered into bilateral negotiations
with the African National Congress (ANC), the
leading anti-apartheid political movement, for ending segregation and
introducing majority rule. In
1990, prominent ANC figures such as Nelson
Mandela were released from prison.
Apartheid legislation was repealed on 17 June 1991,[
pending multiracial elections.
Videos of Apartheid in South Africa
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