Apartheid

From the Afrikaans word meaning 'separation' apartheid was a social philosophy which enforced racial, social, and economic segregation on the people of South Africa.

What makes South Africa's apartheid era different to segregation and racial hatred that have occurred in other countries is the systematic way in which the National Party, which came into power in 1948, formalised it through the law.

The significance of South Africa's national holidays.

A short history of island that housed the most notorious prison of the South African apartheid regime.

The decree that Afrikaans had to be used as a language of instruction in schools contributed to the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa.

A gallery of images of Apartheid Era Signs from the mid 1950s to late 1970s.

Find out more about South Africa's Pact government which brought together Hertzog's National Party and Cresswell's Labour PArty

National Party Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination on 6 September 1966, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was the chief architect of 'Grand Apartheid', which called for the separation of races in South Africa.