Read the sentence below and answer the question that follows. This country severely restricted the rights of its nonwhite citizens under a policy called apartheid, but since 1994 has made progress towards equality. The country described in the sentence above is __________.

Apartheid was a system of racial segregation and discrimination enforced in South Africa. It ended in the early 1990s, and the country held its first all-race democratic election in 1994. Therefore, the country described is South Africa.

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