Describe the system of apartheid practiced in South Africa.

Describe the system of apartheid practiced in South Africa.

Ans.

(i) Apartheid refers to the official policy of racial separation and ill treatment of blacks followed by the government of South Africa between 1948 and 1989.

(ii) (a) They were forbidden from living in white areas. They could work in white areas only if they had a permit. Trains, buses, taxis, hotels, hospitals, schools and colleges, libraries, cinema halls, theatres, beaches, swimming pools, public toilets, were all separate for the whites and blacks. This was called segregation.

(b) They could not even visit the churches where the whites worshipped.

(c) Blacks could not form associations or protest against the terrible treatment.