article_snippet.sent: Black South Africans are pictured burning the passbooks Black South Africans were forced to carry which stopped Black South Africans accessing white only areas during the apartheid .
article_snippet.sent: ’s apartheid illustrates a dark history of  institutionalised racial discrimination that was enforced between 1948 and 1994.
article_snippet.sent: The controversial race laws touched on every major aspect of life including, prohibition of marriage between non-whites and whites, the sanctioning of ‘white only’ areas, the banning of political protest and the classification of all South Africans as either white, black or mixed.
article_snippet.sent: All coloured people were required to carry ‘passbooks’ that contained a photo, fingerprints and information on accessing ‘non-white’ areas.
article_snippet.sent: Non-compliance with race laws were dealt with harshly including fines, whipping and imprisonment.
article_snippet.sent: Notably in 1960, a large group of South Africans refused to carry a large group of South Africans passes and the government responded by declaring a state of emergency that lasted for 156 days, leaving 69 dead and 187 wounded.