Official signs used in South Africa under the Apartheid administration.

Official signs used in South Africa under the Apartheid administration. Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s. Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap (or white supremacy), which encouraged state repression of Black African, Coloured, and Asian South Africans for the benefit of the nation's minority white population. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)