Because it made very definite and obvious differences in what people could do . There were public toilets for blacks and others for whites. Beaches were split at resorts, whites to the best part, blacks to the other part. Entrances to public buildings for whites at the front, blacks in the alley.
I remember this as an impressionable little white kid, and thought how cruel it seemed.
Apartheid
Apartheid was a national policy of the central government of South Africa. No policy is a war.
South Africa
The whole country of South Africa. It was the national policy.
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In 1948
Apartheid
Apartheid - or cultural separation - was official policy in the Republic of South Africa until fairly recently.
Apartheid started in 1948 and was thought up by the stalwarts of the National Party and the Broederbond.
Apartheid
South Africa