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Apartheid Apartheid, policy of racial segregation formerly followed in South Africa. The word “apartheid” means “separateness” in the Afrikaans language, and describes the rigid racial division imposed by the governing white minority on the black (African, Coloured, and Indian) population in South Africa. An agreement was reached in November 1993 pledging an end to apartheid, and South Africa held its first non-racial elections in 1994. Apartheid was much criticized and vilified internationally, and many countries imposed economic sanctions on South Africa because of it. Despite the end of legal apartheid, the vast social, economic, and political inequalities it established between white and black South Africans continue to exist; these concerns are now beginning to be addressed Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.