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Apartheid explained: Key events and legacy

Apartheid, meaning "apartness" in Afrikaans, was a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination in South ...
Over the last few weeks there has been an understandable focus on downsides to a plurality electoral system, such as whether they are biased. In the context of the United Kingdom, most of the focus ...
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 ...
The 1981 Springbok Tour was one of the most controversial events in Aotearoa New Zealand’s history. For 56 days, between July and September, more than 150,000 people took part in over 200 ...
Few words are more synonymous with 20th-century South African history than “apartheid”, the Afrikaans word for “apartness” that described the nation’s official system of racial segregation from 1948 ...
Within a few short years of coming to power in 1948, South Africa's apartheid regime was ruthlessly cleansing cities and towns of so-called "black spots"--where the "non-whites" lived, socialized, ...
Today, we are witnessing a toxic resurgence of hatred in our society. On social media platforms, in public discourse and in township struggles, the violence of apartheid appears to be resurrected in ...
Johannesburg (EFE).- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is setting up a commission to inquire whether the investigation of crimes committed during the segregationist “apartheid” regime (1948-1994 ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Amnesty International said Tuesday that Israel has maintained "a system of oppression and domination" over the Palestinians going all the way back to its establishment in 1948, one ...
Key figures in the international arena have described the situation in the West Bank as apartheid, citing such characteristics of segregation as settler-only roads, fortified settlements, and the ...