The official policy of racial segregation formerly practices in the Republic of South Africa involving political, legal and economic discrimination aginst nonwhites

Boer War - Native Africans fought alongside the British due to their abolishment of slavery. The british won the Boer War and few years of negotiations with Afrikaners, combined four colonies into the Union of South Aftica in 1910. Even though it was a republic, the black South Africans had no rights.

Apartheid Laws

The population Regitration Act, 1950, required that every South African be classified into one of a number of racial population groups

The Reservation of Seperate Amenities Act, 1953 allows public premises, vehicles and services to be segregated by race, even if equal facilities were not made available to all races