Question

what was apartheid? who defined the apartheid regime South Africa and why?​

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Afrikaans: [aˈpartɦəit], segregation; lit. "apartness") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (Namibia)[1] from 1948 until the early 1990s.[note 1] Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap (or white supremacy), which encouraged state repression of Black African, Coloured, and Asian South Africans for the benefit of the nation's minority white population.[5] The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to the present day.