Consider statements A and B on the practice of apartheid: A. It discriminates…

Concept: Apartheid (Afrikaans for “apartness”) was the system of institutionalised racial segregation enforced in South Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s. It classified the population into racial groups and used law to reserve political power, land, and public resources for the white minority, while systematically denying non-white South Africans equal rights — including the right to vote in national elections — and providing them separate, inferior public facilities.

Application: Applying this to the two statements: Statement A claims apartheid discriminated between races but still allowed everyone the right to vote — this is factually wrong, because apartheid-era electoral law restricted the national franchise to white citizens only; Black, Coloured, and Indian South Africans had no vote in the all-white Parliament. Statement B claims apartheid prevented racial mingling but still gave equitable public facilities to all — this is also wrong, because laws such as the Group Areas Act and the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act enforced not just separate but grossly unequal facilities (schools, hospitals, transport, amenities) for non-white communities.

Contrast — why each near-miss combination fails:

• “Only A is true” fails because A's own claim that “all” received the right to vote is untrue — the vote was restricted to whites.

• “Only B is true” fails because B's own claim that facilities were “equitable” is untrue — facilities were segregated and inferior for non-whites.

• “Both A and B are true” fails because BOTH the voting-rights claim in A and the equitable-facilities claim in B are contradicted by the actual apartheid legal framework.

Conclusion: Since both A and B misstate what apartheid actually permitted, both statements are false. This is confirmed by the official CTET (July 2019, Paper II) answer key and by the historical record of apartheid-era law.