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  2. Racism in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Apartheid racism. Apartheid (Afrikaans pronunciation: [aˈpartɦɛit]; an Afrikaans word meaning "separateness", or "the state of being apart", literally "apart-hood") was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation by the National Party (NP), the governing party from 1948 to 1994.

  3. Apartheid - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 September 2024. South African system of racial separation This article is about apartheid in South Africa. For apartheid as defined in international law, see Crime of apartheid. For other uses, see Apartheid (disambiguation). Part of a series on Apartheid Events 1948 general election Coloured vote ...

  4. Inequality in post-apartheid South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Key legislation shaping post-apartheid inequality. South Africa has extremely high unemployment rates. The official unemployment rate is 31.9%, as of Q3 in 2023. [7] Redistribution aims to transfer white-owned commercial farms to Black South Africans. [8] Restitution involves giving compensation to land lost to whites due to apartheid, racism ...

  5. Social apartheid - Wikipedia

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    In South Africa, the term "social apartheid" has been used to describe persistent post- apartheid forms of exclusion and de facto segregation which exist based on class but which have a racial component because the poor are almost entirely black Africans. [9][10] "Social apartheid" has been cited as a factor in the composition of HIV/AIDS in ...

  6. Racial segregation - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. Segregation can involve the spatial separation of the races, and mandatory use of different institutions, such as schools and hospitals by people of different races. Specifically, it may be applied to activities such as eating in restaurants ...

  7. Apartheid legislation - Wikipedia

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    The system of racial segregation and oppression in South Africa known as apartheid was implemented and enforced by many acts and other laws. This legislation served to institutionalize racial discrimination and the dominance by white people over people of other races. While the bulk of this legislation was enacted after the election of the ...

  8. Soweto uprising - Wikipedia

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    Category. v. t. e. The Soweto uprising, also known as the Soweto riots, was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid that began on the morning of 16 June 1976. [1] Students from various schools began to protest in the streets of the Soweto township in response to the introduction of ...

  9. Racism in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Racism in Africa. Racism in Africa has been a recurring part of the history of Africa. Ethnic pygmy populations in Central Africa suffer from racialized discrimination from Bantu peoples. [1] Pygmies and Bantus differ physically and genetically due to long lasting evolutionary segregation until the Bantu expansion brought them back into close ...