racially restricted beach in apartheid-era South Africa
Sign at a beach in Durban, South Africa, in 1989, during the apartheid era. It restricted use of the beach to “members of the white race group,” in accordance with South Africa's racial segregation laws of the time. Legislated apartheid ended in the early 1990s.
apartheid
social policy
apartheid, policy that governed relations between South Africa’s white minority and nonwhite majority for much of the latter half of the 20th century, sanctioning racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites. Although the legislation that formed the foundation of apartheid had been repealed by the early 1990s, the social and economic repercussions of the discriminatory policy persisted into the 21st century. (Read Desmond Tutu’s Britannica entry on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which...
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