Question

The nation where 'apartheid' was practised was
A) South Africa
B) India
C) Pakistan
D) Sri Lanka

Answer 1

Hint: Partheid is an Afrikaans term that literally means "apart-hood" and means "separateness" or "the state of being apart" (from Afrikaans ``-heid"). Apartheid (Afrikaans: "apartness") was the regime that regulated ties between South Africa's white minority and non-white majority throughout the twentieth century.

Complete answer:
In South Africa, this ethnic policy was implemented. Nonwhite South Africans (the majority of the population) will be forced to live in segregated areas from whites, use separate public services, and have no contact with each other under apartheid.

Apartheid dictated where South Africans could live and work, the form of education they could obtain, and whether or not they could vote based on their colour. Following WWII, the National Party rose to power in 1948 on a platform of racial apartheid and aid to poor Afrikaners.

To create the apartheid government system, a slew of laws were passed. The following is the three most relevant pieces of legislation:
- The Race Classification Act is a federal law that regulates how races are classified. Any resident suspected of being non-European was divided into races.
- The Mixed Marriages Act is a law that prohibits people from marrying each other. It made it illegal to marry people of different races.
- The Act on Group Areas. It compelled people of certain races to live in specific places.

Thus the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note: Apartheid used a variety of phoney science tests to sort people into one of four categories: white, black, Indian, or coloured (mixed race). One of these experiments involved placing a comb through someone's hair and seeing if it got stuck, indicating that the individual being examined was African.