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Title: The Apartheid Era Introduction: After this speech you will all know the amount of racial segregation that went on in South Africa before it became a free country. Thesis: The South-African apartheid regime was indeed one of the most brutal of this century. But how did this system really work? Body: I. A. The separation: In the violent apartheid regime every citizen had to be classified as a member of a particular race. This naturally caused a lot of problems, since it is almost impossible to categorize human beings into races. Every person in South Africa had to be placed within one of these categories: Black (31.5 million) Colored (3.3 million) Asian (1.2 million) White (5.4 million) Each of these categories had several sub-directories as well. (www.learner.org) B. Law separated blacks and whites. The blacks lived in their own parts of town, called townships, strictly segregated from the whites. Since the first whites settled in South Africa they had believed that the blacks were racially inferior and couldn’t be expected to live like Europeans, but this policy wasn’t pursued to it’s cruel conclusion until the election of the P.W Botha’s government in1948. 1. They issued a series of laws to k