Thoughts on the Apartheid

A woman came here from South Africa to work for a summer. I was her supervisor. Within 3 weeks, she was one of my best friends. She is the one who got me interested in politics.
She told me about Apartheid, and how her family worked against it, but I didn't understand all that it was until a couple weeks ago, when I read a book titled, Kaffir Boy, by Mark Mathabane.
The Apartheid, in my opinion, bordered on genocide. The goal of the white minority at the time, was to force black people into the bottom rung of their hierarchy. They took control of the education system, teaching them how to submit through severe punishment, more than they taught anything else. They created Pass laws, that required every black person to carry a document that described employment status, where they could live, etc. No one could leave the reservations they were assigned to, except if they worked outside of these areas. They were paid so little, that most lived in absolute squalor. High numbers of young boys - 5, 6, and 7 year olds, prostituted themselves for food. The health clinic turned away children with TB, fainting spells, malnutrition, etc, multiple days in a row because the line was too long. A person was required to have his or her pass in order (which cost money to update) in order to get a job legally, but had to have a job in order to obtain a pass, and could be arrested for being unemployed. Raids by the government occurred night or day to ensure that everyone over 16 had their passes in order. Often, families were broken up because men had to move to obtain jobs, but their wives and children were not given permission to join them.
So many people died of starvation. The raids were severe; young children were beaten by police when they didn't tell where their parents were. It was not a crime to kill a black person, so the police could and did do so easily. It seems to me that it was as if the government wanted them dead- at least the ones who were not absolutely subordinate, but tried to organize it in a way in which they could blame the deaths on the victims. It wasn't the same as the Holocaust, in which the army came door to door taking every Jew to enslave or kill. Instead, they were more subtle.