NCERT Important Questions for Class 9 Social Science Civics Chapter 2
Social Science Class 9 Civics
Constitutional Design 2
Important Questions
3/4 Marks Questions
What do you understand by Apartheid?
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(i) Apartheid was the name of a system of racial discrimination unique to South Africa. The system of apartheid divided the people and labelled them on the basis of their skin colour.
(ii) The white rulers treated all non-whites (native blacks, coloured and people migrated from India etc.) as inferiors. The non-whites did not have voting rights.
(iii)The apartheid system was oppressive for the blacks. They were forbidden from living in white areas. Trains, buses, taxis, hotels, hospitals, schools and colleges, libraries, swimming pools, public toilets, were all separate for the whites and blacks. They could not even visit the churches where the white worshiped. They could not form associations or protest against the system.
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