History of the Apartheid in South Africa
The Union of South Africa was formed after the South Africa Act unified the British colonies of the area. The South Africa Act of 1909 also laid the framework for the government, which would be an all-white bicameral Parliament under the rule of Louis Botha as prime minister. Discriminatory from its creation, the government of South Africa continued to pass acts that would further exclude the non-white majority. The Native Labor Regulation Act and the Mines and Works act in 1911 took away the rights of black South African workers to go on strike and be granted competency certificates required to work in the mines. The 1913 Land Act created territorial segregation, forcing the 80% majority of black Africans to live on 10% of the country’s land on reserves called “homelands”. Opponents of this and the other acts supporting white supremacy throughout South Africa formed the African National Congress (ANC). Tensions between races grew greater, and in 1948 the Afrikaner National Party won the general election with their slogan of "apartheid".