Racial segregation involving political, economic, and legal discrimination against non-whites is called apartheid.This kind of discrimination was highly prevalent in the
country of Africa. The word Apartheid actually means separateness or in other
words “the state of being apart” in the language of the Afrikaans. It was
actually a kind of racial discrimination or segregation that was enforced by
the National Party of Africa through a legislation. The National Party or NP
was the ruling party in Africa from the year 1948 to 1994.