Question

South african laws that legally and forcibly separated people of different ethnic and racial backgrounds were known as

Answer 1

Apartheid laws. There was some truly horrific racial segregation going on in South Africa until fairly recently in its history, many South Africans still live with its legacy. Colonialism and imperialism had far-reaching and nearly universally negative consequences on the African Continent, not least of which being its ideas of racial superiority/inferiority.