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Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela From 1948 to 1994 apartheid was enforced in South Africa. Apartheid was the name given to a form of legal segregation in South Africa. Apartheid first came about in 1948 when South Africa’s National party took power. South Africa’s government broke the country’s population into four groups. Those groups were the whites, who included approximately 13 percent of the population, Africans, who were 77 percent of the population, people who were of mixed descent comprised eight percent of the population, and Asians who were only 2 percent of the population. South Africa’s government set aside certain lands for each of the groups, and those groups were forced to live in those homelands. Besides residential segregation many other restrictions were placed on the black men and women of South Africa. For half of a century, these racist laws remained in place, completely unchanged. In the 1970’s and 1980’s the government in South Africa relaxed the laws slightly. Some of these changes included desegregating certain public facilities, lifting some occupational restriction, and repealing the law prohibiting intermarriage that had been in use since apartheid began. In 1983, the constitution allowed Asians and mandela, africa, south, anc, de, president, klerk, apartheid, nelson, population, new, government, national, first, africa’s, years, people, black, support, percent, make, laws, groups, congress, anti-apartheid, after, african, act, 1994, won, visits, tutu, take, released, prize