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The policy of segregation in South Africa is related with:
 A. Citizen right to use public places.
 B. Separate public places for white and black
 C. Equal opportunities for white and black.
 D. Restriction on the whites.

Answer
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Hint:Segregation is basically the practice of separate housing, services, and education for people of a different color. After the National party emerges into power in South Africa in the year 1948, its all-white government immediately started enforcing policies of racial segregation.

Complete answer:
Apartheid, was the name given y the white-ruled SouthAfrica’s nationalist party in 1948 to the country’s institutionalized system of racial segregation. Racial segregation existed before the twentieth century but in 1948 the National party of South Africa comprised of colonialists which were developed an official policy of racial segregation.

Laws provided for racial segregation in territorial, administrative, industrial, and residential places.
The Black people could not live in white areas and they were only if permitted then can live. Taxis, Beaches, Theatres, public toilets were all separate for blacks and whites.

Black continued to lose earlier benefits and gained little during this period.
The Policy restricted the movement of the black residents ensuring that blacks lived apart from whites.
Features:
Strict separation: The segregation policy provided for the strict separation of blacks from whites. Black Africans were not allowed to live in the areas of whites.

Ban on the formation of alliance: Blacks were not allowed to form an alliance or associations and could not protest against any discriminatory treatment.

Hence, the correct answer is option (B).

Note:Though the South African law of racial categories has been abolished many south Africans still look at themselves according to these categories. The black population in south Africa still consists of several groups called Zulu, Sotho, Shangaan, Xhosa, and Venda.