A. Apartheid is the official policy of racial discrimination and ill treatment of blacks followed by the government of South Africa between the years of 1948 to 1989.B. Apartheid divided the people and labelled them on the basis of their skin colour.C. The native people of South Africa are black in colour. They made up about three-fourth of the population and were called ‘blacks’. Besides these two groups, there were people of mixed races who were called ‘coloured’ and people who migrated from India.D. The white rulers treated all nonwhites as inferiors. The non-whites did not have voting rights.E. The apartheid system was particularly oppressive for the blacks. They were forbidden from living in white areas. They could work in white areas only if they had a permit.
it was a name of system of racial descrimination unique to south africa . It was done by europeans