Apartheid had its roots in South Africa%27s colonial history World pressure played a key role in repeal of apartheid Apartheid laws were repealed in 1991 Nelson Mandela's great legacy springs from his ...

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Apartheid, meaning "apartness" in Afrikaans, was a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. This video provides a simplified ...

Protests in South Africa over a statue of a 19th century diamond magnate and colonial conqueror set off a national debate two years ago about the remnants of apartheid. As part of his ongoing series, ...

In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: A person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Let me offer my own ...

Apartheid is the name of the racial institution that was established in 1948 by the National Party that governed South Africa until 1994. The term, which literally means “apartness”, reflected a ...