Oh I dunno maybe I just posted it. They took segregation and made it worse.
Worse in what way specifically?
Everything you've listed so far was true in Segregation in the US
And there was no Apartheid before this Apartheid is an Afrikaner word.
I actually respect you're knowledge to be better than this.
You really don't believe Apartheid didn't exist before 1948?
Just like a rose..
A system of racial segregation that favors whites by any other name is still a system of racial discrimination that favors white...no?
Isn't that also a social system of "white supremacy"?
A system of racial preference not based on merit or opportunity but skin color?
Precursors
The United Kingdom's
Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. IV c. 73) abolished slavery throughout the
British Empire and overrode the Cape Articles of Capitulation. To comply with the act the South African legislation was expanded to include Ordinance 1 in 1835, which effectively changed the status of slaves to
indentured labourers. This was followed by Ordinance 3 in 1848, which introduced an indenture system for
Xhosa that was little different from slavery. The various South African colonies passed legislation throughout the rest of the nineteenth century to limit the freedom of
unskilled workers, to increase the restrictions on indentured workers and to regulate the relations between the races.
In the
Cape Colony, which previously had a liberal and multi-racial constitution and a
system of franchise open to men of all races, the
Franchise and Ballot Act of 1892 raised the property franchise qualification and added an educational element, disenfranchising a disproportionate number of the Cape's non-white voters,
[24] and the
Glen Grey Act of 1894 instigated by the government of Prime Minister
Cecil John Rhodes limited the amount of land Africans could hold. Similarly, in
Natal, the
Natal Legislative Assembly Bill of 1894 deprived Indians of the right to vote.
[25]
In 1896 the
South African Republic brought in two
pass laws requiring Africans to carry a badge. Only those employed by a master were permitted to remain on the Rand and those entering a "labour district" needed a special pass.
[26]
In 1905 the
General Pass Regulations Act denied blacks the vote and limited them to fixed areas,
[27] and in 1906 the
Asiatic Registration Act of the
Transvaal Colony required all Indians to register and carry passes.
[28] The latter was repealed by the British government but re-enacted again in 1908.
In 1910, the
Union of South Africa was created as a self-governing
dominion, which continued the legislative program: the
South Africa Act (1910) enfranchised white people, giving them complete political control over all other racial groups while removing the right of black people to sit in parliament,
[29] the
Native Land Act (1913) prevented blacks, except those in the Cape, from buying land outside "reserves",
[29] the Natives in Urban Areas Bill (1918) was designed to force black people into "locations",
[30] the Urban Areas Act (1923) introduced
residential segregation and provided cheap labour for industry led by white people, the Colour Bar Act (1926) prevented black mine workers from practicing skilled trades, the
Native Administration Act (1927) made the
British Crown, rather than
paramount chiefs, the supreme head over all African affairs,
[31][
better source needed] the Native Land and Trust Act (1936) complemented the 1913 Native Land Act and, in the same year, the
Representation of Natives Act removed previous black voters from the Cape
voters' roll and allowed them to elect three whites to Parliament.
[32][
better source needed] One of the first pieces of segregating legislation enacted by
Jan Smuts'
United Party government was the
Asiatic Land Tenure Bill (1946), which banned land sales to Indians and Indian descendent South Africans.
[33]
The
United Party government began to move away from the rigid enforcement of segregationist laws during
World War II.
[34] Amid fears
integration would eventually lead to racial assimilation, the National Party established the
Sauer Commission to investigate the effects of the United Party's policies. The commission concluded that integration would bring about a "loss of personality" for all
racial groups.