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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instanceOf apartheid regime
government
white-minority regime
acceleratedReformUnder F. W. de Klerk
apexPeriod 1948–early 1990s
beganReformUnder P. W. Botha
capital Pretoria, South Africa
surface form: 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 South Africa
surface form: Republic of South Africa

Dominion of South Africa
surface form: Union of South Africa
created Bophuthatswana
Ciskei
Transkei
Venda
nominally independent homelands
disenfranchised Black South African
surface form: Black South Africans

Coloured South African
surface form: Coloured South Africans

Indians in South Africa
surface form: 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 of America
surface form: 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
surface form: Bantu Education Act, 1953

Bantustan system
Group Areas Act
surface form: Group Areas Act, 1950

Homelands policy
Immorality Act
surface form: Immorality Amendment Act, 1950

Pass Laws in South Africa
surface form: Pass Laws

Population Registration Act
surface form: Population Registration Act, 1950

Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act
surface form: Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949

Separate Amenities Act
surface form: Separate Amenities Act, 1953

Suppression of Communism Act
surface form: 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
anti-apartheid movement
surface form: international anti-apartheid movement
politicalPartyInPower National Party (South Africa)
surface form: National Party
released Nelson Mandela in 1990
responsibleFor Rivonia Trial
Sharpeville massacre
Soweto Uprising
surface form: Soweto uprising repression
segregated education by race
healthcare by race
public facilities by race
residential areas by race
transport by race
significantLeader B. J. Vorster
surface form: Balthazar Johannes Vorster

Daniel François Malan
F. W. de Klerk
surface form: Frederik Willem de Klerk

Hendrik Verwoerd
surface form: Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

J. G. Strijdom
surface form: Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom

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

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