… consisted of numerous laws that allowed the ruling white minority in South Africa
to segregate, exploit and terrorize the vast majority: Africans, mostly, but also Asians
and Coloureds – people of mixed race. In white-ruled South Africa, black people
were denied basic human rights and political rights. Their labour was exploited, their
lives segregated.
Under Apartheid, racist beliefs were enshrined in law and any criticism of the law was
suppressed. Apartheid was racism made law. It was a system that dictated in the
minutest detail as to how and where the large black majority would live, work and
die. This system of institutionalised racial discrimination defined the principles of the
United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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