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References

(c) CIA Factbook

Introduction:

a•part•heid (Apartheid) n.
1. An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
2. A policy or practice of separating or segregating groups.
3. The condition of being separated from others; segregation.

The Apartheid over South Africa historically began in 1948 with the Apartheid Laws and ended in1991 when the last of the laws that supported apartheid and made racial discrimination legal were abolished. But although these laws were no longer valid, the practice of racial discrimination has continued. Almost fifteen year later, these former laws still impact the lives of many native Africans and have caused these peoples downfall in modern society. In many places Africans do not even have running water, are ravaged by the AIDS epidemic and have no access to many of the resources most modern countries take for granted. The apartheid laws have been abolished, but apartheid practices have led to inequality in housing, work, and quality of life.

(c) United Nations, Historical Images, South Africa

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