apartheid government of South Africa

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The apartheid government of South Africa was the white-minority regime that enforced a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination from 1948 until the early 1990s.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf apartheid regime
government
white-minority regime
acceleratedReformUnder F. W. de Klerk
apexPeriod 1948–early 1990s
beganReformUnder P. W. Botha
capital Pretoria
characterizedBy banning of opposition organizations
censorship and media control
institutionalized racial discrimination
political repression
systematic human rights abuses
condemnedBy United Nations General Assembly
United Nations Security Council
country Republic of South Africa
linked to: South Africa

Union of South Africa
created Bophuthatswana
Ciskei
Transkei
Venda
nominally independent homelands
disenfranchised Black South Africans
linked to: Black South African

Coloured South Africans
Indian South Africans
endedThrough negotiated transition to democracy
endTime 1994
facedSanctionsFrom Commonwealth of Nations
European Economic Community
Organization of African Unity
United Nations
United States
finalElection 1994 South African general election
firstPrimeMinister Daniel François Malan
foreignPolicy anti-communist alignment during Cold War
regional military interventions in Southern Africa
headOfStateTitle Prime Minister of South Africa
State President of South Africa
heldReferendum 1992 white referendum on reform
ideology Afrikaner nationalism
anti-communism
apartheid
racial segregation
white supremacy
imprisoned Ahmed Kathrada
Govan Mbeki
Nelson Mandela
Walter Sisulu
introducedPolicy Bantu Education Act, 1953
linked to: Bantu Education Act

Bantustan system
Group Areas Act, 1950
linked to: Group Areas Act

Homelands policy
Immorality Amendment Act, 1950
linked to: Immorality Act

Pass Laws
Population Registration Act, 1950
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949
Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Suppression of Communism Act, 1950
judicialCapital Bloemfontein
legalized African National Congress in 1990
legislativeCapital Cape Town
maintainedFranchiseFor white South Africans
notRecognizedBy most foreign governments
officialLanguage Afrikaans
English
opposedBy African National Congress
Pan Africanist Congress
South African Communist Party
United Democratic Front
international anti-apartheid movement
politicalPartyInPower National Party
released Nelson Mandela in 1990
responsibleFor Rivonia Trial
Sharpeville massacre
Soweto uprising repression
linked to: Soweto Uprising
segregated education by race
healthcare by race
public facilities by race
residential areas by race
transport by race
significantLeader Balthazar Johannes Vorster
linked to: B. J. Vorster

Daniel François Malan
Frederik Willem de Klerk
linked to: F. W. de Klerk

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
linked to: Hendrik Verwoerd

Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom
linked to: J. G. Strijdom

Pieter Willem Botha
linked to: P. W. Botha
startTime 1948
subjectTo UN arms embargo
succeededBy post-apartheid democratic government of South Africa
supported RENAMO in Mozambique
UNITA in Angola
linked to: UNITA
usedSecurityForce Bureau of State Security
South African Defence Force
South African Police

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African National Congress bannedBy apartheid government of South Africa
B. J. Vorster movement apartheid government of South Africa
Katastrofes hasPoliticalContext apartheid-era South Africa
subject linked to: "Katastrofes"
linked to: apartheid government of South Africa
The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist about apartheid-era South Africa
linked to: apartheid government of South Africa
Pravin Gordhan wasImprisonedBy apartheid government of South Africa
Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela-Mandela detainedBy apartheid government of South Africa
subject linked to: Nomzamo
Silver and Gold mainTheme South African apartheid
linked to: apartheid government of South Africa
Department of Bantu Education partOf apartheid government of South Africa
Freedom Charter opposedBy apartheid government of South Africa
Coloured People’s Congress operatedInPoliticalContext apartheid South Africa
linked to: apartheid government of South Africa
Total Strategy security doctrine appliedIn apartheid-era South Africa
linked to: apartheid government of South Africa
Transkei establishedBy apartheid government of South Africa
Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews detainedBy apartheid government of South Africa
Umkhonto we Sizwe countryOpposed Republic of South Africa (apartheid government)
subject linked to: MK
linked to: apartheid government of South Africa
SACP bannedBy apartheid government of South Africa
Spear of the Nation consideredTerroristOrganizationBy apartheid government of South Africa
Quartus de Wet associatedWith National Party–era South African government
linked to: apartheid government of South Africa
Lionel Bernstein detainedBy South African apartheid government
linked to: apartheid government of South Africa
Mary Masombuka setting apartheid-era South Africa
linked to: apartheid government of South Africa
Manenberg developedBy apartheid government of South Africa
Sam Nujoma opponent South African apartheid regime
linked to: apartheid government of South Africa
Orlando West historicalEra apartheid era South Africa
linked to: apartheid government of South Africa