| 
segregated
restroom facilities for "Blacks, Coloured and Asians"
from the mid 1980s |
In
1948 an Afrikaner government came into power. The system of segregation
known as apartheid (separation) formalized and made more rigid
the racial barriers in South Africa. The government's policy aimed
at complete social, economic and political separation of the races,
while ensuring white supremacy. |
