Apartheid was a system of institutional racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa between 1948 and 1991. Apartheid is an Afrikaans word for "separateness". Afrikaans was spoken by the mainly Dutch settlers in South Africa- Boers. Boer is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for "farmer". The Boers were hostile toward African peoples. They were Calvinists and they belived that only some men are predestined for the salvation - "superior" white Christians and that black peoples were descendents of Ham, Noah`s cursed sohn. Answer: B ) Boers..