Apartheid was the Afrikaans term for the segregation which existed & was legislated by British Colonial regimes but Grand Apartheid of Separate Development was the term used for the post 1949 laws.
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'''Apartheid''' (meaning ''separateness'' in [[Afrikaans language|Afrikaans]]), was a social and political policy of racial [[segregation]] which was enforced by white minority governments in [[South Africa]] from 1948 to 1994.
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'''Apartheid''' (meaning ''separateness'' in [[Afrikaans language|Afrikaans]]), was a social and political policy of racial [[segregation]] which was enforced by white minority governments in [[South Africa]] from the time the state of South Africa was created in 1909 (with the South Africa Act) until June 17 1991 when the final Apartheid laws were abolished in Parliament.