Description of the development, causation, and construction of the South African apartheid system and the positions, ideas, and activities of the key groups, individuals, and countries.

The apartheid policy arose from the ideology of the national party government. It upheld
segregationist policies against the non-whites ion South African. It was constructed under the
ideology that different racial groups should live and develop separately, a situation that
contributed to gross inequality in South African society (Rotich, Ilieva & Walunywa, 2015, P.,
133). The land Act of 1913 that violated South Africans and forced them to live in the reserve
lands away from their white counterparts in the sharecroppers intensified the construction and
formation of the apartheid system. The great depression that contributed to the economic
instability convinced the white regimes in South Africans to divide non-whites along tribal lines
aiming to cause chaos, division and achieve political supremacy over non-whites South Africans.
The Population Registration Act of 1950 that demanded that people should be registered
regarding their racial groups was a major policy during the apartheid system (Rotich, Ilieva &
Walunywa, J. 2015, P. 139). The Group Areas Act of 1950 was also vital in the development and
formation of the apartheid regime since it divided people according to their racial identity in
urban centres and other places of settlement.
The white South Africans held that non-white South Africans could not gain supremacy
over them. They believed that non-whites would be weak regarding the economy, politics, and
social patterns with the division. A group referred to as the Congress of people played a major
part in opposing apartheid. They held that South Africa belongs to everybody who lives in it
regardless of racial differences, skin color, and social class. They developed Freedom Charter in
1955 that led to arrests of almost 150 members of this group by the white government (Rotich,

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Ilieva & Walunywa, 2015, P., 135). ANC also played a role in protests against apartheid. It was
one of the parties that took part in the anti-apartheid campaign. Nelson formed Umkhonto we
Sizwe ("Spear of the Nation'), a military of the ANC party to spearhead non-white South
Africans towards unity and liberty. His arrest led to an international outcry contributing to the
future end of apartheid rule. The United States of America and the United Kingdom imposed
economic sanctions in South Africa due to the increasingly violent protests and mass murders.
They perceived the apartheid as a platform of instability, a situation that threatened the doctrines
of the United Nations.