“South Africa is still the most unequal country in the world in terms of wealth distribution, according to the World Bank, with race a key factor.”
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap, which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation’s minority white population.