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Why occurred apartheid?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Apartheid - Afrikaans for 'separateness' or 'apart-hood' was essentially a policy which aimed to keep political control of South Africa in the hands of the white minority.

Black South Africans were supposed to exercise their political rights in the rural 'homelands' (or Bantustans) which had little or no influence and comprised a small percentage of South Africa. As most people lived in the rest of South Africa, this meant, of course, that they had no say over their own lives, were rigorously separated and discriminated against residentially; educationally etc (much as in the southern states of the USA at the time).

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