What was the Apartheid?

Question

For my class I need a 5-6 sentence summary of what the apartheid was. Does anybody know?

Answer 1

a. what's wrong with you, can't you look it up in Wikipedia?

b. since some people are going to be lazy in life whereas I like to be challenged on things I know, im going to answer.

c. Apartheid basically means "appart". "The Apartheid" is a period in South African History during which the local blacks were segregated in very strict ways from the whites, mainly between 1948 and 1991. The whites were mainly the netherlanders and the english who where there since colonialism. Nelson Mandela is the historical hero of the end of segregation. He was also a friend of Castro and of all the "non-aligned" movement.

d. Did you know that Gandhi spent some time as a lawyer in South Africa? Though it was before this time of stict apartheid, rasicm was very intense. there was the White man, and each other person was judged gradually lower by the darkness of his skin. As such, an indian was superior to a black (according to the whites) and chinese superior to the indians and of course whites to all.

Answer 2

The apartheid was a system of social segregation in South Africa. As for the 5-6 sentence summary, do it yourself!!


Here's a link...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid

Answer 3

You can choose your sentences from this...


Apartheid (literally "separateness" in Afrikaans) was a system of racial segregation that was enforced in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. Apartheid was designed to form a legal framework for continued economic and political dominance by people of European descent.

Under apartheid, people were legally classified into a racial group — the main ones being White, Black, Indian and Coloured — and were geographically, and forcibly, separated from each other on the basis of the legal classification. The Black majority, in particular, legally became citizens of particular "homelands" that were nominally sovereign nations but operated more akin to United States Indian Reservations and Australian/Canadian Aboriginal Reserves. In reality however, a majority of Black South Africans never resided in these "homelands."

In practice, this prevented non-white people — even if actually resident in white South Africa — from having a vote or influence, restricting their rights to faraway homelands that they may never have visited. Education, medical care, and other public services were segregated, and those available to black people were generally inferior.

Answer 4

I know there have been many apartheids (which is a seperation or segregation of a group). One specifally was in South Africa, but I don't know which one you want. ^_^

Answer 5

I'll only give you a hint, since it's your homework: it has to do with South Africa and racism.