Apartheid was a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination that existed in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. The term apartheid means "separateness" or "the state of being apart". The policies under apartheid divided people and labeled them as whites and non-whites based on their skin color. The apartheid laws were introduced in 1948 and institutionalized racial discrimination, affecting almost every aspect of a persons social life, including a prohibition of marriage between non-whites and whites and the sanction of "white-only" jobs. In 1950, the Population Registration Act was passed, which classified all South Africans into three categories: white, black (African), or colored (mixed of descent) . The apartheid system was characterized by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap, which means "boss-ship" or "domination". The system was oppressive and economically and politically oppressed the non-white population of the country. The apartheid system was abolished in the early 1990s, and in May 1997, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its report on Apartheid Repression, which found 7,000 political deaths between 1948-1989, and 22,000 injuries in the transition period between 1990-1994.