Question

What was apartheid and how did it restrict the rights of non-whites?

Answer 1

After the National Party gained power in South Africa in 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 forapartheid.

Answer 2

it was a system of institutionalised racial segregation and discrimination that existed in South Africa from 1948 until the early 1990