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Apartheid was a legal political and social system in South Africa and it was characterized by a white-minority rule. The discrimination was based on the color of one's skin, and people divided by race were forced to live apart from each other.
This racial segregation policy was implemented from 1948 to 1990.
Apartheid was an example of legal discrimination as there were laws that kept and enforced that separation. Black people were not allowed to enter certain areas of the country and they had to wear special passed and ask permission to live and work in specific places. Interracial marriages were not allowed and black people could not own land in white areas.
Apartheid was officially banned in 1994 with the power of the new Constitution.
