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 ...

Afrikaner nationalism and the coming of apartheid -- The Black experience : a prelude to apartheid -- The rise and decline of apartheid -- The decline and rise of the Black opposition -- The Soweto ...

Harriet A. Washington's "Medical Apartheid" not only speaks to a true and gruesome history, but it connects the dots of malpractices and ideologies that still affects communities of color today in the ...

One of South Africa's most notorious apartheid police commanders testified on Monday at an inquiry into the killing of four activists in 1985 as part of the country's renewed focus on atrocities ...

Daniel Magaziner first met Omar Badsha in 2013 while in South Africa researching a book on art education under apartheid. Badsha, raised in Durban in a Gujarati Muslim family, was running an archival ...

South Africa's apartheid history and affinity to the Palestinian cause has helped shape its case of genocide against Israel, as lawyers on both sides prepare for the International Court of Justice.

In the 1980s, South African urban areas were in open revolt against the apartheid government, which had institutionalized a system of racial segregation and political separation from 1948 to 1994. One ...

Explore the history of apartheid in South Africa, a period marked by racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the white minority government from 1948 to the early 1990s. This video provides a ...

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 ...