Question

who adopted apartheid, which was a strict separation of races

Answer 1

Apartheid was adopted in South Africa as an official policy by the National Party government, which came to power in 1948. The policy established a system of institutionalized racial segregation that affected all aspects of life, including education, employment, housing, and political representation, favoring the white minority over the non-white majority. The apartheid regime enforced laws that created separate areas for different races and restricted the rights of non-white populations. The system of apartheid continued until the early 1990s when it began to be dismantled, leading to the first multiracial elections in 1994 and the election of Nelson Mandela as president.