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Apartheid in South Africa

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       Apartheid means "separation." It is not just the separation of blacks from whites. It is the separation of all the races in South Africa. These races are the whites (which make up only fifteen percent of South Africa's population), the blacks, the "coloureds" (any person who is of mixed race), and the Indians (or Asians). The whites were the only one of the four races to have complete freedom. The blacks, coloureds, and Indians were treated as inferior people. They were deprived of their natural rights.
       Apartheid was not a thing that came on quickly. Blacks and whites had remained separate ever since South Africa came under British rule in 1910, although Apartheid was not legally instated until much later. Several laws were passed in the early twentieth century enforcing the policy of separation...