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IBM supports South African apartheid by creating a national data tracking system.

Date: 1948-1994

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Black South Africans under apartheid are required to carry identity documents that are used to surveil and control all of their movements.

Kayyali (2015) writes: "The national ID documents and their underlying computer systems were products that IBM specifically produced and customized for the South African government".