Apartheid
Apartheid is a social system in which races are completely separated. In South Africa, apartheid (Afrikaans: “apartness”) was the name given to the government’s policies of segregation based on race, which built upon the previous history of racial division. As a result of the rule of white minorities in South Africa, apartheid was a racist political and social system. Non-whites were discriminated against based on their skin color and facial features. During the twentieth century, this existed between 1948 and the early 1990s.