Question

Features of apartheid policy in south africa

Answer 1

After the National Party gained power in South Africain 1948, its all-white government immediately began enforcing existing policies of racial segregation under a system of legislation that it called apartheid. ... de Klerk began to repeal most of the legislation that provided the basis for apartheid.

Answer 2

Answer:

• Apartheid as a state imposed system of racial discrimination had been practiced by South Africa as an official policy since 1948.
• The majority black south Africans were denied the fundamental rights, political rights and liberties.
• The minority of the whites ruled over majority black.
• Nelson Mandela the most popular leader of African people who had been jailed for several years was released from jail in 1990. He proved quite successful in carrying on negotiations to bring to an end to the policy of the apartheid.
• The government decided to give up the age long policy of apartheid. In the election in 1994 all citizens of South Africa were given political rights.