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What did apartheid mean for South Africa?
distantiation
Apartheid was a political and social system in South Africa during the era of White minority rule. It enforced racial discrimination against non-Whites, mainly focused on skin colour and facial features. The word apartheid means “distantiation” in the Afrikaans language.
What is apartheid international law?
The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity “committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or …
Who occupies the West Bank and Gaza Strip?
Israel
The Gaza Strip and the West Bank had been occupied by Egypt and Jordan, respectively, since the 1948 war until 1967. Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the Six-Day War of 1967 and has since maintained control….Palestinians.
| Region | Population |
|---|---|
| East Jerusalem | 192,800 |
| Gaza Strip | 1,657,155 |
How did apartheid affect South African education?
The Apartheid system created educational inequalities through overt racist policies (see timeline). Educational inequality was also evident in funding. The Bantu Education Act created separate Departments of Education by race, and it gave less money to Black schools while giving most to Whites (UCT).
Who governed South Africa during apartheid?
Racial segregation had long existed in white minority-governed South Africa, but the practice was extended under the government led by the National Party (1948–94), and the party named its racial segregation policies apartheid (Afrikaans: “apartness”).
Though apartheid was supposedly designed to allow different races to develop on their own, it forced Black South Africans into poverty and hopelessness. Black people could not marry white people. They could not set up businesses in white areas. Everywhere from hospitals to beaches was segregated.