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What was Apartheid? Describe it in at least three sentences.
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"South Africa gained independence from Britain in 1910. However, the white minority kept political and economic power for themselves. In 1948, they adopted apartheid, a former South African policy of strict separation of races. Apartheid laws limited where Black people could live, work, travel, go to school, and receive medical care. Black South Africans could not vote or marry people of different races."
"Many people inside and beyond South Africa believed Apartheid was wrong. Protests within the country were often met with police violence. The government jailed leaders of groups like the African National Congress (ANC), a political party that worked for Black civil rights."
"Nelson Mandela played a key role in ending apartheid. He was an ANC leader who was jailed in 1962. He continued to protest from prison. F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's president from 1989-1994, realized that apartheid was destroying South Africa. In 1990, he released Mandela from prison and agreed to end apartheid. In 1994, South Africans of all races voted together and Mandela became president. South Africa was truly free and independent at last.".
Definition of Apartheid from the online textbook: A former South African policy of keeping white and black South Africans apart.
Your sentence starters!
Apartheid was....
Two laws Black Africans had to follow during Apartheid were....
Apartheid ended after....
Apartheid was a former South African policy that enforced strict separation of races. Black South Africans were limited in where they could live, work, travel, go to school, and receive medical care. They were also denied basic rights such as voting and marrying people of different races.
Two laws Black Africans had to follow during Apartheid were restrictions on where they could live and work, as well as limitations on their education and access to healthcare.
Apartheid ended after years of protests and international pressure, along with the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990. In 1994, South Africans of all races voted together and Mandela became the president, marking the official end of apartheid in South Africa.