In 1948, the national party led by Rev D. Martin, came together with a manifesto of apartheid. Although discriminatory policies already existed, this was to be a systematic categorizing and segregation of the population.

The South Africa group segregation acts from 1948 to 1950 was an act of extreme prejudice. In South Africa, in 1948, all the racial groups were separated, or "apartheid" meaning separate development of different races and religion. There were many acts in the time period that ensured that apartheid would persist such as the suppression of communism act in 1950 which made it so that no group could oppose apartheid. The government was also allowed to persecute anyone that opposed apartheid.

What made the South African group segregation different from other racism and segregation was the systematic way that the national party took charge in 1948 and put the apartheid acts into laws. Apartheid was so in order that they...