Stretching from 1948 all the way to 1994, there was what we call apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid was essentially legal segregation between white people and non-white people, but mostly blacks. Public facilities like libraries, swimming pools and beaches were seperated. Apartheid means segregation in Afrikaans.
It started back in the colonial times, where the South African continent was split up between European countries in 1652. South Africa came under possession of the Dutch. Back then, there were black tribes already living there. The Dutch started taking their land and their cattle from them. In 1795, things began to change. The English invaded Cape Town and took the colony from the Dutch. This explains the Africans accent, a mix between English and Dutch.
A long and bloody war was going on between the Dutch and the English, called the Boer Wars. The English won the war, and the first thing they did was to abolish slavery, but the Dutch didn’t like that, so they left the Cape Colony. The English continued to rule over South Africa. They fought a lot of African tribes to expand. In 1948, a new government was elected, The National Party government. This government introduced many new laws. The first law the whites introduced was, that interracial marriage was illegal; the next law was that interracial sexual relations were illegal and the third law was that every citizen in South Africa had to get registered as black, white, colored or Indian. These laws were followed by seventeen more rules, most of them limiting the rights for non-whites.
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