A history of Apartheid in South Africa
Before we will check out the history of the apartheid period it's necessary to know what apartheid was and the way it affected people. Translated from the Afrikaans meaning 'apartness', apartheid was the ideology supported by the National Party government and was introduced in South Africa in 1948. Apartheid involved the separate development of the various racial groups in South Africa . Apartheid made laws forced the various racial groups to measure separately and develop separately, and grossly unequally too. During apartheid, to possess a friendship with someone of a special race generally brought suspicion upon you, or worse. More than this, apartheid was a social organization that severely disadvantaged the bulk of the population, just because they didn't share the complexion of the rulers. In basic principles, apartheid didn't differ that much from the policy of segregation of the South African governments existing before th