Apartheid
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Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an authoritarian political cultu
Hendrik Verwoerd, minister of native affairs (1950–1958) and prime minister (1958–1966), earned the nickname 'Architect of Apartheid' from his large role in creating legislation.
Cape Coloured children in Bonteheuwel
Rural area in Ciskei, one of the four nominally independent homelands
Man subject to forced removal in Mogopa, Western Transvaal, February 1984
South Africa
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South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa, is the southernmost country in Africa. Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres of coastline that stretches along the Sout
Front of Maropeng at the Cradle of Humankind
Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias planting the cross at Cape Point after being the first to successfully round the Cape of Good Hope
Charles Davidson Bell's 19th-century painting of Jan van Riebeeck, who founded the first European settlement in South Africa, arriving in Table Bay in 1652
Depiction of a Zulu attack on a Boer camp in February 1838