How was Apartheid established and maintained in South Africa (1948-1994) and what lasting impactdid it have on that nation?

Apartheid called for the separate development of the different racial groups in South Africa. On paper, it appeared to call for equal development and freedom of cultural expression, but the way it was implemented made this impossible. Apartheid made laws that forced the different racial groups to live separately and develop separately, and grossly unequally too. It tried to stop all inter-marriage and social integration between racial groups.

Explanation:

Numerous laws were passed in the creation of the apartheid state. Here are a few of the pillars on which it rested:

Population Registration Act, 1950 This Act demanded that people be registered according to their racial group.

Group Areas Act, 1950 This was the act that started physical separation between races, especially in urban areas.

Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act, 1959 This Act said that different racial groups had to live in different areas.

Poverty, poor education, corruption and racial prejudice still remain facts of life in a nation recovering from apartheid. South Africans living in the post-apartheid era will need to contend with these effects for decades.

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