Apartheid in South Africa crumbled after Nelson Mandela walked to freedom, but black people suffered decades of government backed injustice before he did. Apartheid really beagn in 1948, but seperating black africans from the white minority had long been a policy aim. Laws made white people officially superior and the large black majority faced discrimintion in every aspect of their lives, living or doing business in White areas was banned, there were seperate public facilities, transport and schools. Interracial marriage was banned, many had no right to citizenship, and were regarded as aliens in major city, instead they were made citizns of homelands scattered throughout South Africa, but ressistance grew, in 1960 a huge peaceful protest against passlaws ended in a massaccre at Sharpville, 69 people were killed, the deaths created a public outcry, radicalizing liberation movements like the ANC or African National Congress.
Open conflict erupted in the 1980s, with anti-apartheid activists frequently shot at, beaten or arrested, mass protests were firmly put down, but little by little the apartheid establishment crumbled.
Nelson Mandela, South Africas first democratically elected president in 1994, with the official end of white minority rule, otherwise known as apartheid .
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It was a system of racial segregation that governed South Africa for nearly 50 years
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