Apartheid

Summary

Apartheid was a political and social system in South Africa during the era of White minority rule. It was characterized by an authoritarian political culture based on white supremacy, which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population. The system was dismantled through a series of negotiations from 1990 to 1993, culminating in the first multiracial democratic elections in 1994.