"Apartheid" was a low or policy once in South Africa circulated by the White minority people for their own purpose and because of which the African people had suffered a lot. After immense struggle and suffering the African people became free from it.

1. A Brief about the term
Apartheid
Name: Riddhi Jani
Roll No: 23
Paper: 11, The Postcolonial Literature
Semester: 3rd
Submitted To: Department of English,
M. K. Bhavnagar University

2. “Apartheid”
• ‘Apartheid’ is the name of
the policy, that had started
after 1948 by Nationalist
Government.
• ‘Policy of separate
development’
• Under the colonization of
South Africa white people
had used this policy for
their own benefit and
purpose.

3. • Under this policy many Black people were
divided by their race. And this Act circulated
many other acts such as:
• Population Registration Act
• The Mixed Amenities Act
• The Group Areas Act
• The Immorality Act
• The Establishment of Bantustans

4. • The establishment of
Bantustans:
• It was done for resolution of
racial tensions, but it became so
called aim.
• White was minority, and
possessed most of the land of
southern Africa.
• White people kept the land and
laborers under their possession.

5. The Group Area Act
• Development of racially segregated township.
• Under this act Black, colored people and Indians
were forced to leave the urban areas.

6. Mixed Amenities Act
• Social segregation act
• Under this act Black and colored people were not
allowed in public places and facilities.
• In this way White people exercised their
supremacy over Black people.

8. Population Registration Act and Pass
Laws
• Registration of all people
by racial groups.
• Under Pass Laws- non-whites
had to carry a
pass.
• Without work permit they
were restricted to enter in
whites’ areas.

9. The Immorality Act
• It is a law against ‘miscegenation’.
• This is also a so called immorality act that was
made to preserve ‘racial purity’
• Reclassification of individuals by the
government.
• This reclassification was led by the White
hegemonic views.

11. • This inhuman policy was run almost for 46 years in
South Africa.
• Ultimately in1994, after long struggle and protest
this system was banned.
• Frederik Willem De Klerk was the last president
under Apartheid. And Nelson Mandela was the first
after banning of it.
• Both won Nobel Peace Prize.
• Now, ‘Apartheid’ is not limited to South Africa.

12. • "Between the anvil of united mass action and the
hammer of the armed struggle we shall crush
apartheid and white minority racist rule."
-Nelson Mandela
- June 1980