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How did Apartheid happen, and how did it finally end? - Thula Simpson

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For 46 years, South Africans lived under Apartheid, a strict policy of segregation that barred the country’s Black majority from skilled, high-paying jobs, quality education, voting, and much more. So, how did these laws come to be? And how did this era of institutionalized discrimination finally come to an end? Thula Simpson explores how colonization led to the national trauma of Apartheid.

In 1948, many countries pursued policies of racial segregation, but by 1994 South Africa was isolated in continuing the practice. Do you think Apartheid would have ended without growing international revulsion against racial discrimination?

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  • Narrator Safia Elhillo
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