How was ‘apartheid’ practised in South Africa?
Answer:
- The system of apartheid divided the people and labelled them on the basis of their skin colour.
- The natives of South Africa were the ‘Blacks’, the people of mixed races were ‘Coloured’ and the people who migrated from India, ‘The Indians’.
- All Non-Whites were treated as inferiors and were deprived of their right to vote.
- They were forbidden from living in white areas.
- They could work in white areas only if they had a permit.
- Trains, buses, taxis, hotels, hospitals, schools, colleges, libraries, 'cinema halls, beaches, swimming pools, public toilets were all separate for whites and blacks.
- The Blacks could not visit the churches where the whites worshipped.