Apartheid and South African Human Rights Violations
- All-white National Party comes to power in 1948
- Apartheid (separate or apart) was their main agenda
- A doctrine of white supremacy and separate development
- Non-white South Africans could no longer:
- Marry outside of their own race
- Choose where to live (passbooks)
- Segregated public spaces
- Travel where they liked
- The whites made up 15% of the population yet owned 87% of the land
- Non-whites were forced to live on Bantustans
- Enforced by the army and police force
Summary
In 1948 the white national party came to power. The had one idea in mind "apartheid". Blacks pretty much had no longer any liberty. The white population in South Africa was a minority compared to the black population. Blacks ended up living in slums called " Bantustans".