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Apartheid in Africa Apartheid isn't a new thing, ever since Dutch colonists landed in 1652; "Blacks" and "Whites" have lived apart in South Africa. Officially started in 1948 when the Afrikaner Nationalist party came to power, apartheid is a system of racial laws devised to "Preserve and promote a white majority over a black majority." It has a lot of opposition and it led to an international boycott of South Africa because of it. When the Dutch …

…away while the white hospital was just around the corner, the child would not be admitted. Black human rights were obviously not recognized at all. Imprisonment without trial was not uncommon, the right to speak publicly and write for publication was absolutely forbidden. Because of his activism against Apartheid, Nelson Mandela was imprisoned. The black people were made to suffer this arrangement for a total of 46 years before Apartheid ended, but racism still continues regardless.