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  1. Apartheid - Wikipedia

    Basing its platform on abolishing apartheid and creating a nonracial democratic South Africa, the UDF provided a legal way for domestic human rights groups and individuals of all races to organise …

  2. Apartheid | South Africa, Definition, Facts, Beginning, & End | Britannica

    Dec 6, 2025 · Apartheid was a policy in South Africa that governed relations between the white minority and nonwhite majority during the 20th century. Formally established in 1948, it sanctioned racial …

  3. Apartheid: Definition & South Africa | HISTORY

    Oct 7, 2010 · Apartheid, or “apartness” in the language of Afrikaans, was a system of legislation that upheld segregation against non-white citizens of South Africa.

  4. Apartheid in South Africa - The National Archives

    The term apartheid comes from the Afrikaans word meaning ‘separation’. This system implemented political, social, and economic segregation on racial grounds in South Africa. It ensured domination...

  5. Apartheid: A Short History - Anti Apartheid Legacy

    Explore the short history of Apartheid: understand its origins, key laws, brutal impact, and the resistance that led to its end in 1994.

  6. apartheid | Wex | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute

    Apartheid refers to the implementation and maintenance of a system of legalized racial segregation in which one racial group is deprived of political and civil rights. Apartheid is a crime against humanity …

  7. Apartheid - Wikiwand

    Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was character...

  8. The States Parties to the present Convention declare that apartheid is a crime against humanity and that inhuman acts resulting from the policies and practices of apartheid and similar policies ...

  9. A history of Apartheid in South Africa

    May 6, 2016 · Translated from the Afrikaans meaning 'apartness', apartheid was the ideology supported by the National Party (NP) government and was introduced in South Africa in 1948. Apartheid called …

  10. Apartheid: Beginning and End, and the History of South Africa

    Apr 17, 2017 · Explore the historical landscape of apartheid, understand its origins, the intense struggle against this regime, and the influential role of Nelson Mandela in bringing about its end.