Question: The system of institutionalised racial segregation and discrimination in what country , had a South African politician and intellectual in the years preceding 1948 whos namesake was a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa?
Context: The system of racial segregation in South Africa known as "apartheid" was implemented and enforced by a large number of acts and other laws.  This legislation served to institutionalise racial discrimination and the dominance by white people over people of other races.  While the bulk of this legislation was enacted after the election of the National Party government in 1948, it was preceded by discriminatory legislation enacted under earlier British and Afrikaner governments.  Apartheid is distinguished from segregation in other countries by the systematic way in which it was formalised in law. Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.  Enacted by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures in the late 19th century after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued to be enforced until 1965.  They mandated "de jure" racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America, starting in 1896 with a "separate but equal" status for African Americans in railroad cars.  Public education had essentially been segregated since its establishment in most of the South after the Civil War.  This principle was extended to public facilities and transportation, including segregated cars on interstate trains and, later, buses.  Facilities for African Americans were consistently inferior and underfunded compared to those which were then available to European Americans; sometimes they did not exist at all.  This body of law institutionalized a number of economic, educational, and social disadvantages.  "De jure" segregation existed mainly in the Southern states, while Northern segregation was generally "de facto"—patterns of housing segregation enforced by private covenants, bank lending practices, and job discrimination, including discriminatory labor union practices.  "Jim Crow" was a pejorative expression meaning "Negro". Apartheid ( ; ] ) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa between 1948 and 1991.  Broadly speaking, apartheid was delineated into "petty apartheid", which entailed the segregation of public facilities and social events, and "grand apartheid", which dictated housing and employment opportunities by race.  Prior to the 1940s, some aspects of apartheid had already emerged in the form of minority rule by white South Africans and the socially enforced separation of black South Africans from other races, which later extended to pass laws and land apportionment.  Apartheid as a policy was embraced by the South African government shortly after the ascension of the National Party (NP) during the country's 1948 general elections. Herbert Basil Sutton Cooke {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 17 October 1915) is a Canadian geologist and palaeontologist, and Emeritus Professor at Dalhousie University.  Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, he was educated at King Edward VII School before earning a B.A. (1936) and M.A. (1940) at Cambridge University, and M.Sc.  (1940) and D.Sc.  (1947) at the University of the Witwatersrand.  He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa in 1948 for his contributions to Quaternary geology.  He is known for his studies of fossil pigs and other even-toed ungulates of Africa.  A "festschrift" in honor of his life and contributions was published in "Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa" in 2006.  He received the Canadian Centennial Medal (1967) and Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal (2002) for his contributions to education.  Other honors include being a Life Fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa, an honorary Life Member of the Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa, past president and Life Member of both the South African Geographical Society and the South African Archaeological Society, and past vice-president of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science.  His books include "Geology for South African Students", co-written with G. N. G. Hamilton and published in five editions since 1939, and "The Evolution of African Mammals" (1978), co-edited with V. J. Maglio.  He turned 100 in October 2015. The Natives Resettlement Act, Act No 19 of 1954, formed part of the apartheid system of racial segregation in South Africa.  It permitted the removal of blacks from any area within and next to the magisterial district of Johannesburg by the South African government.  This act was designed to remove of blacks from Sophiatown to Meadowlands. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (8 September 1901 – 6 September 1966), also commonly referred to as Dr. Verwoerd, was a South African professor, newspaper editor-in-chief and politician who served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966.  He is regarded as the mastermind behind socially engineering and implementing the racial policies of apartheid, the system of legal racial classification and forced racial segregation that existed in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.  Verwoerd played an instrumental role in helping the far right National Party (South Africa) come to power in 1948 serving as their propagandist and political strategist.  He eventually rose to party leader in 1958. Internal resistance to "apartheid" in South Africa originated from several independent sectors of society and alternatively took the form of social movements, passive resistance, or guerrilla warfare.  Mass action against the ruling National Party government, coupled with South Africa's growing international isolation and economic sanctions, were instrumental factors in ending racial segregation and discrimination.  Both black and white South African activists such as Steve Biko, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Harry Schwarz, and Joe Slovo were involved with various anti-apartheid causes.  By the 1980s, there was continuous interplay between violent and non-violent action, and this interplay was a notable feature of resistance against apartheid from 1983 until South Africa's first multiracial elections under a universal franchise in 1994. Jan Hofmeyer is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, located in Region F.  Originally named after Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (20 March 1894 – 3 December 1948), a South African politician and intellectual in the years preceding Apartheid. Swazi Music Radio (SMR) was a South African radio station broadcasting from Swaziland between 1972 and 1978.  It was initially established as Swaziland Commercial Radio but was soon taken over by the South African entrepreneurs Issie and Natie Kirsh as a competitor to LM Radio which broadcast from nearby Mozambique.  The studios were based in central Johannesburg and the transmitters were in Sandlane in Swaziland, just across the eastern border of South Africa, not far from the small town of Amsterdam.  Programmes were recorded in Johannesburg and the tapes taken by road to the transmitting station for broadcast the next day.  It had been hoped that the medium wave transmission would reach the Johannesburg area during the day, however long distance medium wave propagation in the former Transvaal Province was poor and only really effective at night.  Daytime listening was on short wave.  During the years it operated, SMR recruited many of the announcers who had been on LM Radio and SABC stations, among them Gary Edwards, Frank Sanders, John Berks, Darryl Jooste, Leon Fourie, Barry O'Dee and Gordon Hoffman.  Another former LM radio announcer George Wayne also returned briefly from Australia to join the station.  (Stan Katz, who later went on to become one of South Africa's most prominent broadcasters, joined the station in its early days as a junior programming assistant).  Overall, SMR was not commercially successful as it could not compete with the superior technical transmission of Radio 5 (now 5FM) which took over from LM Radio when that station closed in October 1975 and relocated from Mozambique to South Africa.  Operated by the South African Broadcasting Corporation, Radio 5 was heard via local medium wave transmitters in all the major cities in South Africa and also had good short wave coverage.  When SMR eventually closed, the studios and transmitters were used to broadcast three ethnic radio services - Radio SR, targeted to the black African market, Radio Paralello 27 which broadcast in Portuguese and Radio Truro aimed at the Indian population of South Africa under the direction of radio veterans Rob Vickers and Zena Watkins.  These stations all closed down in the 1980s. Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (20 March 1894 – 3 December 1948) was a South African politician and intellectual in the years preceding apartheid.  In his lifetime he was regarded as one of the cleverest men in the country, and it was widely expected that he would eventually become Prime Minister of South Africa.  He came from a well-known Afrikaner family; his uncle, also Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, but known affectionately as "Onze Jan" among fellow Afrikaners, was a famous figure in the Afrikaans language movement.
Answer: South Africa