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Apartheid Apartheid was policy of racial segregation formerly followed in South Africa. The word apartheid means "separateness" in the Afrikaans language and it described the tight racial division between the governing white minority population and the non-white majority population. The National Party introduced apartheid as part of their campaign in the 1948 elections, and with the National Party victory, apartheid became the governing political policy for South Africa until the early 1990s. Although there is no longer a legal basis for apartheid, the social, economic, and political inequalities between white and black South Africans continue to exist. The apartheid laws classified people according to three major racial groups - white, Bantu, or black Africans, and coloured, or people of mixed descent. Later Asians, or Indians and Pakistanis were added as a fourth category. The laws determined the social and economical way of life for the citizens in South Africa: where members of...

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