Apartheid, meaning "apartness" in Afrikaans, was a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. This video provides a simplified ...

A South African court ruled Thursday that the 1967 death of ANC leader and Nobel prize winner Albert Luthuli was due to ...

White South Africans invented a system of racial segregation in 1948. They called it apartheid, an Afrikaans word that means “separateness.” The purpose of the system was to keep South Africa’s ...

In 1995, Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa, welcomed Queen Elizabeth to Cape Town–her first visit in almost 50 years. Their warm, personal relationship added great resonance to ...

In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: A person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Let me offer my own ...

A new exhibition at the Apartheid Museum titled: Grave Injustice: The Unfinished Business of the TRC, will open to the public on September 24 and highlights the ongoing struggle for justice and ...

PART I -- GLOBALISATION OF ANTI-APARTHEID -- Humanitarians, Human Rights and Anti-Apartheid; Rob Skinner -- 'We the people of the United Nations': The UN and the Global campaigns against Apartheid; ...