The racist apartheid system in South Africa lasted 46 years, starting in 1948 when the all-white National Party won control of South Africa’s government on a platform of racial segregation. Millions of non-white families were forcibly removed from urban areas designated as “white” under apartheid laws. The apartheid system also denied them political representation and access to decent education, health care and economic opportunities, according to The African Union. Per a chart by World Economics, South Africa still ranks as the second-most unequal country in the world, defeating only the tiny…