A WORLD REPORT SPECIAL EDITION : SOUTH AFRICA: A TALE OF SIX FAMILIES : SOUTH AFRICA: FORGING A NATION : Separate and Unequal: Scrapbook of ‘The System’
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In 1948, South Africa began imposing an unparalleled system to segregate the races and ensure the political supremacy of the white minority. Known as apartheid , from Afrikaans for “separateness,” it divided South Africans into white, black, Colored (mixed race) and Indian. It restricted where nonwhites could live, work, play and go to school. Blacks had no vote.
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