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What was the biggest reason the government of South Africa created a policy of apartheid?

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Apartheid was established by the national list government of South Africa as a means of separating any non-white peoples of the country. Apartheid in its most basic translation means "to keep apart" or to "separate".

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to keep different races and ethnicities separated in order to avoid conflict.

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Apartheid is the name given to a policy that operated in South Africa until the 1990s. This policy allowed the legal, political and economic segregation of non-white ethnic groups. The policy was intended to keep different races separated in order to avoid conflict. However, it lead to enormous discrimination of different ethnicities, to the benefit of the white population.

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