Get your long term car rental in South Africa at a car rental at Johannesburg international airport for good car rental deals. Once you have your car head out to the Apartheid Museum. The museum has a separate exhibition area that leads the tourist consecutively through the prelude to and history of apartheid, including the present day situation in South Africa post-apartheid. It has carefully documented history of Apartheid, a system created in 1948 by the National Party government to segregate Western civilised people from the rural indigenous black people who had started invading the major cities like Johannesburg in search of work. Europeans had a passport system, which enforced travellers to neighbouring states, to carry such a passport to allow entry to foreign lands. However in South Africa the underlying concept was somewhat distorted with the “dom pas” law.

This was one of the more abhorrent laws included in such by-laws as the “dom pas” “dumb pass” The itinerant black population were required to carry these pass books with them when outside their compounds or selected areas. They had to produce a pass to any government official or police officer and more often than not resulted in the person being arrested if they were unable to produce a pass.

Large police vans (called Black Marias), would scour the white neighbourhoods looking for illegal blacks with their pass papers. These tactics are what set apartheid as a different type of segregation seen elsewhere in the world.