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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. 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 …

  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 | World History - Lumen Learning

    Apartheid sparked significant international and domestic opposition, resulting in some of the most influential global social movements of the twentieth century.

  6. 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.

  7. Women in exile shaped South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement

    Jan 7, 2026 · Women played a major role in debates surrounding the fight against apartheid in South Africa, Rachel Sandwell writes in a new book, “National Liberation and the Political Life of Exile: Sex, …

  8. 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.

  9. How did Apartheid happen, and how did it finally end? - TED

    How did Apartheid happen, and how did it finally end? For 46 years, South Africans lived under Apartheid, a strict policy of segregation that barred the country’s Black majority from skilled, high …

  10. South Africa's history and culture in World of Travel - The Hill

    4 days ago · Apartheid, meaning “apartness,” was a brutal system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the country’s white minority government.