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Apartheid Was Officially Incorporated By The Afrikaner

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Apartheid was officially incorporated by the Afrikaner Nationalist party in 1948. It was a system of legal discrimination, effectively revoking the rights of twenty five million black South Africans for over forty years in favor of the five million whites who had held government through colonization. The laws established under apartheid combined earlier segregation laws and customs into a new comprehensive code of racial statutes, and had as its main aim the establishment of legal separation and white supremacist rule. A total of three hundred and seventeen laws came into effect, legally affecting all aspects of life for black South Africans including but not limited to; land ownership, freedom of association, the right to vote, and…show more content…
Controlled Movement And Fake Independence
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