Serious race riots in Durban between Indians and Zulus erupted in 1949 . Ne Win 's rise to power in Burma in 1962 and his relentless persecution of " resident aliens " led to an exodus of some 300,000 Burmese Indians . They migrated to escape racial discrimination and wholesale nationalisation of private enterprises a few years later , in 1964 . The Zanzibar Revolution of January 12 , 1964 , put an end to the local Arab dynasty . Thousands of Arabs and Indians in Zanzibar were massacred in riots , and thousands more were detained or fled the island . In August 1972 , Ugandan President Idi Amin started the expropriation of properties owned by Asians and Europeans . In the same year , Amin ethnically cleansed Uganda 's Asians , giving them 90 days to leave the country . Shortly after World War II , the South African National Party took control of the government in South Africa . Between 1948 and 1994 , the apartheid regime took place . This regime based its ideology on the racial separation of whites and non-whites , including the unequal rights of non-whites . Several protests and violence occurred during the struggle against apartheid , the most famous of these include the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960 , the Soweto uprising in 1976 , the Church Street bombing of 1983 , and the Cape Town peace march of 1989
Soweto uprising
Soweto uprising
Racism