Explain the five features of apartheid in South Africa
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✔A. The white Europeans imposed the system of apartheid on the blacks in South Africa, that divided the people on the basis of their skin colour.
✅b. The discriminatory policies of apartheid regime sought to segregate blacks, considered them inferior and deprived them of socio economic and political equality.
✔c. Such a system, flouted the very principle of Equality as Blacks were denied equal opportunities, and followed oppressive discriminatory policies.
✅d. It undermined value of Liberty and freedom, Blacks were denied voting rights and were not allowed to voice their dissent
✔e. Blacks were segregated there were separate schools, toilets, hospitals,beaches for them.
Answer:
Apartheid was a political discrimination based on the color of the skin imposed on the people of South Africa by white minority rule.
Explanation:
What is Apartheid?
- Apartheid was the name of the system of racial discrimination imposed by whites on South African people.
- It was during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Britain colonised South Africa, that apartheid was imposed.
Main features of Apartheid
- There were no voting rights for blacks. The white rulers considered blacks as inferiors and never allowed them to vote.
- They were restricted from living in areas where whites lived. They have to live separately from whites.
- They were also not allowed to use the privileges of trains, buses, hospitals, hotels, theatres, swimming pools, public toilets, etc.
- They were also restricted from visiting churches that whites worshipped.
- Blacks were denied the right to organise protests against any discriminatory treatment they faced.
- On the whole, they were denied the right to live.
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