Apartheid and South African Human Rights Violations
- All-white National Party comes to power in 1948
- Apartheid (separate or apart) was main agenda.
- A doctrine of white supremacy and separate development
- Racist
- Non-white South Africans could no longer:
- Marry outside of their own race
- Choose where to live
- Travel where they liked
- Whites made up 15% of the population, but owned 87% of property
- Rules were enforced often violently by the army and police
- Non-whites forced to live in Batustans
- African National Congress
- The most prominent resistance to Apartheid
- Wanted to create a non-racial democracy
- The National Party portrayed the ANC as a Communist organization
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