Putting apartheid into perspective
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South Africa after apartheid
The troubles of South Africa were not over when apartheid ended. Mandela’s new government (1994-1999) was faced with an enormous foreign debt and a raging epidemic of HIV/AIDS throughout the country (requiring expensive treatment a…
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Segregation in other parts of the world
Many other nations in the world have had similar segregation policies to South African apartheid, though under different names.
In the US, segregation between African Americans and white Americans was commonly practised in …
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Segregation in the world today
Legal segregation based on ethnicity or religion is still practised in some nations today, though it is becoming increasingly rare.
A clear example of legal segregation can still be found in Liberia, a countr…