The South African socio-legal system that institutionalized racial discrimination was known as "apartheid". An Afrikaans word meaning " to hold apart" (or, less literally, "separation"), apartheid maintained strict segregation between the white minority and all other races of South Africans
racial segregation and discrimination
Aparthied is a strict system of racial segragation and discrimination on South Africa against black South Africans. It was enforced by the national party government in South Africa between 1948 and 1994.
The civil rights movement in South Africa happened primarily as a response to apartheid, a system of legalized racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the government from 1948 to 1994. The movement sought to dismantle these racist policies, fight for equality, and secure basic human rights for all citizens, irrespective of their racial background. Led by activists such as Nelson Mandela, the movement utilized various methods including protests, strikes, and international pressure to challenge apartheid and bring about its eventual demise.
In South Africa, a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.
Apartheid
racial segregation and discrimination
In 1948 a uniform and very brutal system apartheid was extended to the whole of South Africa. Before that, various kinds of discrimination had been practised at local level.
Aparthied is a strict system of racial segragation and discrimination on South Africa against black South Africans. It was enforced by the national party government in South Africa between 1948 and 1994.
The system of separating black and white people in South Africa was called apartheid. It was a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination that enforced white minority rule over the majority non-white population.
The civil rights movement in South Africa happened primarily as a response to apartheid, a system of legalized racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the government from 1948 to 1994. The movement sought to dismantle these racist policies, fight for equality, and secure basic human rights for all citizens, irrespective of their racial background. Led by activists such as Nelson Mandela, the movement utilized various methods including protests, strikes, and international pressure to challenge apartheid and bring about its eventual demise.
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In the 1980s Archbishop Desmond Tutu became South Africa's most well-known opponent of apartheid, that country's system of racial discrimination, or the separation of people by skin color. In 1984, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in South Africa.
Racial segregation
In South Africa, a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.
Tutu was a South African Civil Rights leader. He worked to end South Africa's strict racial segregation policy, known as apartheid. Apartheid means an official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites. Tutu describes the apartheid system as "evil and unchristian." Desmond Tutu formulated his objectives for a democratic and just society without racial division and for everyone to have equal rights. He set forward these following points: the abolition of South Africa's passport laws, a common system of education, the cessation of forced deportation from South Africa to the so-called "homelands" and equal rights.
It was known as, Apartheid.
Apartheid