About Apartheid
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s.
South Africa rugby: The Springboks give hope to a troubled nation
... Before the end of Apartheid - the system of legalised racism in South Africa that saw it ostracised by much of the world for three decades - the whites-only team was excluded from previous world cup tournaments...
Cyril Ramaphosa: South Africa's president considers future amid corruption scandal
... But could anyone in the current ANC leadership - so many tainted, themselves, by allegations of corruption - garner the levels of nationwide popular support that Mr Ramaphosa still enjoys? And if not, are we watching the slow unravelling of the party that once liberated South Africa from Apartheid - and election defeat in 2024? South Africa s main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, is certainly hoping to capitalise on the current crisis, calling for early elections...
Trevor Noah: I never said entire UK racist, says comic after Rishi Sunak row
... In the original comments on the US programme, Noah - who is South African and grew up during Apartheid - said: " You hear a lot of the people saying Oh, they re taking over, now the Indians are going to take over Great Britain and what s next? " And I always find myself going So what? What are you afraid of? I think it s because the quiet part that a lot of people don t realise what they re saying is, We don t want these people who were previously oppressed to get into power because then they may do to us what we did to them...
SA urges halt to Nelson Mandela's Robben Island prison cell key auction
... Mandela was released in 1990 as South Africa began to move away from strict racial segregation (Apartheid) - a process completed by the first multi-racial elections in 1994 when he was elected the country s first black president...
Separated at birth: my mother gave it away because, you know, looked?
...When a public health emergency are asked to look at Nathan Romburgh and his sisters, in the history of her family, decades after the end of Apartheid, they discovered a closely guarded secret, that the question of their own identity...
Rugby and apartheid: 50 years after the battle of Swansea
... Anti-Apartheid activist Peter Hain (holding microphone) has been branded a traitor by some in the white community in South Africa under the leadership of Peter Hain, then a 19-year-old students, and with the help of the future Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Edinburgh, they were hell-bent on causing as much trouble, the South African cricket players due to the tour next year would not even step foot in the United Kingdom...
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