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U.S. government justification for supporting the Apartheid regime were publicly given as a belief in "free trade" and the perception of the anti-communist South African government as a bastion against Marxist forces in Southern Africa, for example, by the military intervention of South Africa in the Angolan Civil War in support of right-wing ...
Pro-apartheid South Africans attempted to justify the Bantustan policy by citing the British government's 1947 partition of India, which they claimed was a similar situation that did not arouse international condemnation. [160] Map of the black homelands in South Africa at the end of apartheid in 1994
Apartheid. The Soweto uprising, also known as the Soweto riots, was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid that began on the morning of 16 June 1976. [1] Students from various schools began to protest in the streets of the Soweto township in response to the introduction of Afrikaans ...
Internal resistance to apartheid in South Africa originated from several independent sectors of South African society and took forms ranging from social movements and passive resistance to guerrilla warfare. Mass action against the ruling National Party (NP) government, coupled with South Africa's growing international isolation and economic ...
The apartheid period in South Africa from 1948 to 1994 was a period of institutionalised racial segregation and discrimination which denied black people political and economic rights and enforced segregation. This period gave rise to an intellectual culture of opposition in some South African universities within the broader anti-apartheid movement.
Apartheid Museum. The Apartheid Museum is a museum illustrating apartheid and the 20th-century history of South Africa. The museum, part of the Gold Reef City complex in Johannesburg, was opened in November 2001. [1] At least five times a year, events are held at the museum to celebrate the end of apartheid and the start of multiracial ...
South Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital Saturday that included a 21-gun salute and the waving of the nation's ...
Racial Equity in Education: How Far Has South Africa Come? Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd A major task of the new democratic government that assumed power in South Africa in 1994 was to promote racial equity in the state education system. This was no small feat. During the apartheid era, which began when the National Party won control of