![]() In practice, this prevented non-white people - even if actually resident in white South Africa - from having a vote or influence, restricting their rights to faraway homelands that they may never have visited. In reality, a majority of Black South Africans had never resided in these "homelands." The Black majority, in particular, legally became citizens of particular "homelands" that were nominally sovereign nations but operated more akin to United States Indian Reservations and Australian/Canadian Aboriginal Reserves. Under apartheid, people were legally classified into a racial group - the main ones being White, Black, Indian and Coloured - and were geographically, and forcibly, separated from each other on the basis of the legal classification. South Africa had long since been ruled by whites and apartheid was designed to form a legal framework for continued economic and political dominance by people of European descent. "Petty apartheid": sign on Durban beach in English, Afrikaans and Zulu (1989)Īpartheid (literally "apartness" in Afrikaans and Dutch) was a system of racial segregation that was enforced in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. ![]()
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