Apartheid
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Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to 1994. It was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on
Hendrik Verwoerd, minister of native affairs (1950–1958) and prime minister (1958–1966), earned the nickname 'Architect of Apartheid' from his large role in creating legislation.
Cape Coloured children in Bonteheuwel
Rural area in Ciskei, one of the four nominally independent homelands
Man subject to forced removal in Mogopa, Western Transvaal, February 1984
Coloureds
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Coloured people are multiracial people in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and to a smaller extent Zimbabwe and Zambia. Their ancestry descends from the interracial mixing that occurred between Europea
Apartheid
…economically by the nation's minority white population. Under this minoritarian system, white citizens held the highest status, followed by Indians, Coloureds and black Africans, in that order. The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to persist to the present day, particularly inequality…
Coloured family
An extended coloured family from Cape Town, South Africa
Felix Florez, a Filipino man in kalk Bay in 1863
Adam Kok III, leader of the Coloured Griqua People