What does aparthied mean?

Answer 1

• Apartheid was the name of a system of racial discrimination.
• The white Europeans imposed this system on South Africa.
• The trading companies from Europe occupied it with arms and force.
• These ‘whites’ settled here and became the local rulers.
• The system of apartheid divided the people and labeled them on the basis of their skin colour.
• The native people who made about three-fourth of the population were black in colour .These were called ‘blacks’.
• There were people of mixed races who were called ‘coloured’ and people who migrated from India.
• The white rulers treated all non-whites as inferiors and they did not have voting right.

Answer 2

In the Republic of South Africa it is a rigid policy of segregation of the nonwhite population.