Apartheid

Apartheid (Afrikaans for Separateness), is a social and political policy of racial segregation and seperate development, which was implemented by white minority governments in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.

The government also continued the British policy of granting independence to the different black peoples' homelands and granted blacks citizenship and franchise in their own country. The black people living in "white South Africa" were not given franchise there, however. Education, health care and other services were granted to blacks and other colored races by the white government.

Despite many sanctions, some governments of the western world continued to support the white regime including conservative ones like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. David Cameron, the current leader of conservatives in the united kingdom recently admitted the party was wrong, drawing comments; Thatcher's former spokesman, Sir Bernard Ingham, who said: 'I wonder whether David Cameron is a Conservative.'

Nelson Mandela (who recieved a B.A. degree at Fort Hare University, funded by the apartheid regime) was jailed in 1963 for attempting to overthrow the government by means violent sabotage.[1] When the black population of South Africa was given the right to vote in 1994, he was elected President.

Former President Jimmy Carter infamously referred to the Israeli occupation of Palestine as "apartheid."