https://padlet.com/dawsonantonia/3dj42u148h0rgd95 What was Apartheid? How did it start? Who was involved? How did it end? en-us 2022-05-13 13:20:01 UTC 2022-05-17 15:20:20 UTC hello@padlet.com dawsonantonia https://padlet.com/dawsonantonia/3dj42u148h0rgd95/wish/2182901797 policy that governed relations between South Africa’s white minority and nonwhite majority for much of the latter half of the 20th century, sanctioning racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites. Basically the name that the party gave to its racial segregation policies, which built upon the country's history of racial segregation between the ruling white minority and the nonwhite majority.]]> 2022-05-13 13:42:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dawsonantonia/3dj42u148h0rgd95/wish/2182901797 dawsonantonia https://padlet.com/dawsonantonia/3dj42u148h0rgd95/wish/2182910588 Racial segregation had long existed in white minority-governed South Africa, but the practice was extended under the government led by the National Party , and the party named its racial segregation policies apartheid. The Population Registration Act of 1950 classified South Africans as Bantu , Coloured, those of mixed race, or white. an Asian ,Indian and Pakistani, category was later added. Other apartheid acts dictated where South Africans, on the basis of their racial classification, could live and work, the type of education they could receive, whether they could vote, who they could associate with, and which segregated public facilities they could use.]]> 2022-05-13 13:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dawsonantonia/3dj42u148h0rgd95/wish/2182910588 dawsonantonia https://padlet.com/dawsonantonia/3dj42u148h0rgd95/wish/2187821767 Racial classification was the foundation of all apartheid laws. It placed individuals in one of four groups: 'native', 'coloured', 'Asian' or 'white'. In order to illustrate everyday reality under apartheid, visitors to the museum are arbitrarily classified as either white or non-white. White people in the government thought that their race was superior to the majority race in africa which is Black. ]]> 2022-05-17 15:19:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dawsonantonia/3dj42u148h0rgd95/wish/2187821767 dawsonantonia https://padlet.com/dawsonantonia/3dj42u148h0rgd95/wish/2187823781 Under the administration of the South African president F.W. de Klerk, legislation supporting apartheid was repealed in the early 1990s, and a new constitution—one that enfranchised blacks and other racial groups—was adopted in 1993. All-race national elections held in 1994 resulted in a black majority government led by prominent anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress party.]]> 2022-05-17 15:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dawsonantonia/3dj42u148h0rgd95/wish/2187823781