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 ...

(Reuters) - Former South African President P.W. Botha, the defiant face of apartheid, died on Tuesday and is remembered for doggedly refusing to release Nelson Mandela from prison for battling white ...

Few words are more synonymous with 20th-century South African history than “apartheid”, the Afrikaans word for “apartness” that described the nation’s official system of racial segregation from 1948 ...