The apartheid system in South Africa legally enforced racial segregation and white minority rule between 1948 and 1994. Non-white South Africans, who made up the majority of the population, were classified into separate racial groups and forced to live in segregated areas. They were also restricted in terms of jobs and education. Opposition to apartheid grew through non-violent protests and strikes, but the government violently cracked down on dissent. International sanctions in the 1980s increased pressure on the apartheid government, which began reforms and held multiracial elections in 1994, bringing the apartheid system to an end.

3. The
Definition
A system of legal racial segregation
enforced by the National Party
government in South Africa between
1948 and 1994, under which the rights
of the majority black inhabitants of
South Africa were curtailed and minority
rule by whites was maintained.
The different groups were very much
separated from each other.
The minority white population had the
rule and control of the country.

4. INTRODUCTION
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. Under apartheid,
nonwhite South Africans (a
majority of the population) would
be forced to live in separate areas
from whites and use separate
public facilities, and contact
between the two groups would be
limited.

5. BIRTH OF APARTHEID
Racial segregation and white supremacy had become central
aspects of South African policy long before apartheid began.
The controversial 1913 Land Act, passed three years after
South Africa gained its independence, marked the beginning
of territorial segregation by forcing black Africans to live in
reserves and making it illegal for them to work as
sharecroppers. Opponents of the Land Act formed the South
African National Native Congress, which would become the
African National Congress (ANC).

6. APARTHEID BECOMES A
LAWBy 1950, the government had
banned marriages between whites
and people of other races, and
prohibited sexual relations between
black and white South Africans.
The Population Registration Act of
1950 provided the basic framework
for apartheid by classifying all
South Africans by race, including
Bantu (black Africans), Colored
(mixed race) and white. A fourth
category, Asian (meaning Indian
and Pakistani) was later added. In
some cases, the legislation split
families; parents could be classified
as white, while their children were
classified as colored.

7. OPPOSITION TO APARTHEID
Resistance to apartheid within South Africa took many forms
over the years, from non-violent demonstrations, protests and
strikes to political action and eventually to armed resistance.
Together with the South Indian National Congress, the ANC
organized a mass meeting in 1952, during which attendees
burned their pass books. A group calling itself the Congress of
the People adopted a Freedom Charter in 1955 asserting that
“South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black or white.” The
government broke up the meeting and arrested 150 people,
charging them with high treason.

8. APARTHEID COMES TO AN END
In 1976, when thousands of black
children in Soweto, a black
township outside Johannesburg,
demonstrated against the Afrikaans
language requirement for black
African students, the police opened
fire with tear gas and bullets. The
United Nations General Assembly
had denounced apartheid in 1973,
and in 1976 the UN Security
Council voted to impose a
mandatory embargo on the sale of
arms to South Africa. In 1985, the
United Kingdom and United States
imposed economic sanctions on the
country.

9. CONTINUED….
Under pressure from the
international community, the
National Party government of
Pieter Botha sought to institute
some reforms, including
abolition of the pass laws and
the ban on interracial sex and
marriage. A new constitution,
which enfranchised blacks and
other racial groups, took effect
in 1994, and elections that year
led to a coalition government
with a nonwhite majority,
marking the official end of the
apartheid system.

10. There were four groups classified by the
government. These groups were:
1. Black, which was 71% of the population.
2. White, which was 16% of the population.
3. Colored, who were a mixture of races (from black, white,
and Asian intermarriages and relations). They were 10% of the
population.
4. Asian, which was 3% of the population.

11. Segregation
During Apartheid, the white minority population controlled the
country.
They determined where a person might live, go to school, and
what jobs a person could hold.
They favored segregation, and Apartheid rule of law.

12. Nelson
Mandela
Nelson Mandela led the
African National
Congress (ANC), which
had been outlawed since
1960, to victory in South
Africa's first free
elections.
He became the
President of South Africa
on April 26, 1994.
Because of this election,
the minority population
would no longer control
the lives of South

15. BY
MILIND (GABA)
PAWAN KUMAR SINGH
SHAURYA CHAUDHARY
TUSHAR GARG
ANKIT BHARDWAJ
VISHWADEEP SINGH AJAYRAJ
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