What was Apartheid in South Africa? How was it resisted and what brought about its end? What are its enduring legacies?
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Instituted in the late 1940s, it involved racial segregation and political dominance for white groups only in South Africa. Blacks were relegated to "homelands" where they had "citizenship" but were geographically isolated and socially and politically disenfranchised. Resistance began in the 1960s, but became violent in the 1980s. International pressure also mounted against the white minority government to end its racist policies. By the early 1990s South Africa was the only white-controlled government on the continent and elections were held in 1994 in which Nelson Mandela was elected. Although the policies have ended officially, residential segregation is still present as economics sharply divides South Africans on racial lines. Violent crime and massive rural migration to cities has also plagued post-Apartheid South Africa in addition to a violent anti-immigrant backlash.
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