how was apartheid practiced in South africa
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i) Apartheid was the racial discrimination between whites , blacks and the coloured people on the basis of skin colour.
ii) There was seperate areas for whites and blacks to work , blacks were forced to live in dark areas.
iii) Only certain blacks were allowed to work in the white areas who had the permission.
iv) The blacks were not allowed to enter in the buses , parks movie theaters , libraries etc.
v) Those who oppose this sysytem was sentenced to treason .
The system of apartheid divided the people and labelled them on the basis of their skin colour.
The natives of South Africa were the ‘Blacks’, the people of mixed races were ‘Coloured’ and the people who migrated from India, ‘The Indians’.
All Non-Whites were treated as inferiors and were deprived of their right to vote.
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, colleges, libraries, 'cinema halls, beaches, swimming pools, public toilets were all separate for whites and blacks.
The Blacks could not visit the churches where the whites worshipped.