Someone please explain apartheid to me. No haters, please.?

Answer 1

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html

go to that website it's very explanatory

Answer 2

Simply put South Africa created a set of laws to keep blacks and white's seperate and called the laws and system created by those laws 'Apartheid.' It was a very specific term for a very specific situation.

The Apartheid system was very oppressive. The majority of South Africa's population was black but still if you were black in South Africa you needed a passport to live in your own home. If you were found without it you could be taken from your home and put onto the equivilent of a reservation outside of the cities.

Travel was also restricted and not only for blacks. Whites were not allowed to travel into certain areas without having a good reason. This helped to prevent sympathy being generated for the oppressed natives by the whites who could vote and might want to stop Apartheid if they saw the injustice it caused.

In WWII the word ghetto was used specifically for the areas of towns that the Nazi's put the Jews into, it became a word meaning the crappy part of town where the oppressed are kept.

The meaning the word apartheid seems to be evolving now too. Jimmy Carter uses the term in the title of his new book describing how the laws and regulations enacted by Israel since its creation fifty years ago are affecting the people who have lived there for generations.

Answer 3

The Apartheid in South Africa was quite the same as the Segregation in the US: a separation between the White and the Black, giving all advantages to the White and no rights (or very few) to the Black; it lasted from 1948 until 1991. It was forbidden for everybody who was not White to mary a white person, the Black had no right to study, a lot of places inside their country were prohibited to them unless they had a "passport" that said they could go to these places, a lot of public places were for the White only, the White were ruling everywhere although they were just a small minority, etc... This racist system was abolished in 1991, and four years later, Nelson Mandela became the first Black president of South Africa.