Apartheid timeline. A look at the rise and fall of the racial segregation system in South Africa. ... 1992- A referendum on ending apartheid held in South Africa on March 17, 1992.

South Africa’s last white president, FW de Klerk, who negotiated the end of white minority rule and a peaceful transfer of power to a black-led government, died on Thursday aged 85.

Born in 1941 in England, Williamson’s family moved to South Africa when she was a child. In the 1960s, she worked as a journalist before moving into fine art, and in the 1980s was part of a movement ...

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 ...

It's been thirty years since a racist system ended in South Africa, but what was it, and how does it affect life in the ... 00:04:01 The history of apartheid in South Africa. Published. 9 May 2024.

In the first decade after apartheid, the ANC-led South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) went from $153bn in 1994 to $458bn in 2011, according to the World Bank.

Indeed, South Africa has one of the highest rates of protest in the world, with regular demonstrations being held since the 1970s. Our protest culture is a legacy of the apartheid years.

Three months after becoming prime minister in 1984, Brian Mulroney hosted Desmond Tutu, the bishop of Johannesburg and a powerful South African anti-apartheid leader, in his office in Ottawa.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered an inquiry Wednesday to establish whether previous governments led by his party intentionally blocked ...

KLEINFONTEIN, SOUTH AFRICA—At the entrance to this rural settlement is a well-kept shrine to the primary architect of apartheid. Nearby rests an old wheelbarrow, a symbol of the white Afrikaners ...