Apartheid in South Africa Canada is still correcting unjust treatment of our Aboriginal citizens, and the end is not yet in sight. However, Canada has a better record, than another former British colony, South Africa. For 250 years, South African treatment of its original peoples, was an international shame. "Apartheid" meaning 'separateness' was the law and the policy of South Africa that defined an evil, racist system of denying the rights of non- white people in the country. Apartheid created a nation where a minority of white citizens enjoyed prosperity and health, by dominating 5 times as many non-whites. T