South African Bureau of Racial Affairs

The South African Bureau of Racial Affairs (SABRA) was an organization during the apartheid era, established in the 1960s. Its main role was to promote the apartheid government's policies of racial segregation and to manage social relations between different racial groups. SABRA conducted research, collected statistics, and advised the government on racial issues, all in support of the discriminatory laws that classified people by race. It aimed to enforce the ideology of separate development, but its work has since been criticized for perpetuating inequality and discrimination in South Africa’s history. The bureau was dissolved after apartheid ended in the early 1990s.