Explain drawbacks of apartheid

• ​Apartheid was the system of racial discrimination or segregation on grounds of race unique to South Africa. The white Europeans imposed this system on South Africa. The system of apartheid divided the people and labelled them on the basis of their skin colour. The white rulers treated all non-whites as inferiors. ​

​The apartheid system was particularly oppressive for the blacks. ​​

• ​The non-whites did not have the voting rights. ​​ 
• ​Blacks could not form associations or protest against the terrible treatment.
• ​They could work in white areas only if they had a permit.
• They were forbidden from living in white areas.
• They could not even visit the Churches where the whites worshipped. ​​
• Trains, buses, taxis, hotels, hospitals, schools and colleges, libraries, cinema halls, theatres, beaches, swimming pools, public toilets, were all separate for the whites and blacks. This was called ‘segregation’.