Summary
Agencies attached to the UN have instituted a broad range of actions over the years toward the elimination of apartheid, which has been declared incongruous with the UN Charter. Apartheid was adopted as an official policy in 1948 by South Africa, until 1990 when it sought to end such institutionalized system of racial segregation and discrimination.
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The UN and apartheid: a chronology.
Apartheid--an Afrikaans word meaning separateness--was the State system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination adopted by the South African Government in 1948 as an official policy until early 1990, when the Government committed itself to ending apartheid and establishing a non-racial and democratic system of government.
Under apartheid, South Africa's population was divided into separate groups according to colour-Black (African), White (European), Coloured and Indian. Black South Africans--some 73 per cent of the country's population--were systematically denied fundamental rights and liberties, not allowed to participate in the political life of the country, and subject to repressive laws and regulations. This strictly observed segregation was regulated and enforced through a number of laws, chief among them being the Population Registration Act of 1950, under which racial categories were defined, a population register was compiled, and "identity cards" were issued. South Africa was divided into a White area and African reserves. Within the White urban areas, the Group Areas Act of 1950 was used to divide the non-White population into different residential areas--Coloured, Indian, Black--while the Af...See the full content of this document
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