The Apartheid system of racial segregation and discrimination began in 1948 when the National Party won South African elections. Under Apartheid, laws classified the population into whites, colored, blacks, and Indians, restricting where each group could live, work, attend school, and access public services. Blacks faced severe discrimination, as they were denied most civil and political rights and access to resources was unequal, with black communities receiving poor infrastructure and underfunded hospitals and education. Some reforms occurred in the late 1970s and 1980s that allowed limited organization of black labor unions, but the Apartheid system was not fully dismantled until 1990.

1. Apartheid

2. When did it start?
• The Apartheid started in 1948, when the
National Party won the elections.

3. Some of the laws were:
• They didn’t have business in the places assigned for the
whites.
• They had a special public transport for blacks and other for
whites.
• It wasn’t permitted the access in the places assigned for
white population unless they had a ticket.
• The public buildings such as the Court or the post office
had different access for blacks and whites.
• The places assigned for the blacks not usually had
electricity or water.
• The hospitals for blacks were understaffed and the
equipment was poor for attending the demand.
• Higher education was prohibited for the blacks.

4. The population was classified in
three groups:
• The colored persons who were the mulattoes.
• The blacks.
• The Indians consisting in Indians and
Pakistanis.

5. Between 1975 and 1985…
• …the Govern approved a law allowing
the organization of the black syndicates.

6. In 1990