Apartheid was the official doctrine of the South African government, and the ruling National Party (NP), between 1948 and 1991. Meaning ‘separateness’, it was in practice nothing more than an excuse for domination by the white minority...

An organization formed in April 1980 to co-ordinate the transport, trade and development of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and...

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South Africa considers changing apartheid-era place names By SUSANNA LOOF Associated Press Sunday, August 27, 2000 Johannesburg, South Africa -- Apartheid is gone, but South African maps are still filled with tributes to white men once hailed as heroes by...

A former defense minister and 10 senior apartheid-era military officers are to be charged with murder this week in the highest- reaching prosecution yet of anti-black hit squad activity, the government announced. The prospect of court action against Magnus Malan, minister of defense...

In the following essay, Heyns analyzes how white authors writing in the post-apartheid state deal with issues of culpability and their own roles in South Africa's history of oppression.

In the following essay, Farred argues that Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying is “a flawed work” due to its focus on the transitory and loosely defined values of the post-apartheid era.

In the following essay, Gallagher offers a critical perspective on how several realist and historical South African novels written before the 1990s are being reinterpreted and recontextualized in the post-apartheid culture.

The Apartheid. An experience that left thousands of Black South Africans without rights, property, and even lives. Although original in its name, the ideas were not original in itself. The ordeal dates back to 1652.

Describes and explains the factors which brought apartheid to an end in South Africa. Explores the role of former prisoner, Nelson Mandela.

One can explain the process of South African modernization from 1948 to 1976 to a significant extent through aspects of Marxist theory. Such aspects include control of the means of production by the white bourgeoisie; exploitation of the black proletariat in the interest of the ruling class; and the idea of thesis and antithesis in the form of resistance against Apartheid. These concepts make it clear that Marxist analysis can usefully explain South Africa during this period.