Apartheid

Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 until the early 1990s. An authoritarian political culture based on baasskap (or white supremacy characterised apartheid), which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation’s minority  white population. According to this system of social stratification, white citizens had the highest status, followed by Asians and Coloureds, then black Africans. The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to the present day. (Wikipedia)