- limited the freedom of movement of nonwhite citizens
- created separate residential and business districts
- forced the relocation of black residents to rural “homelands”
Apartheid was a policy of social segregation that took place in South Africa between 1948 and 1994, with the rise of the National Party, whose government was composed of a white minority. The country was governed by this minority who adopted since 1948 a policy of racial segregation.
With the strengthening of the regime between the 1960s and 1970s, strong opposition was present. The National Party had as its parameter the ideas of white racial superiority and for the maintenance of its government and that system invested in constant vigilance and repression.