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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 September 2024. South African system of racial separation This article is about apartheid in South Africa. For apartheid as defined in international law, see Crime of apartheid. For other uses, see Apartheid (disambiguation). Part of a series on Apartheid Events 1948 general election Coloured vote ...
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The apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of bilateral and multi-party negotiations between 1990 and 1993. The negotiations culminated in the passage of a new interim Constitution in 1993, a precursor to the Constitution of 1996; and in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994, won by the African National Congress (ANC) liberation movement.
Internal resistance to apartheid. Internal resistance to apartheid. Part of the decolonisation of Africa. Nelson Mandela burns his passbook in 1960 as part of a civil disobedience campaign. Date. 4 June 1948 – 10 May 1994. (45 years, 11 months and 6 days) [note 1] Location. South Africa.
F. W. de Klerk. Frederik Willem de Klerk OMG DMS (/ də ˈklɜːrk, də ˈklɛərk / də-KLURK, də-KLAIRK, Afrikaans: [ˈfriədərək ˈvələm də ˈklɛrk]; 18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a South African politician who served as state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996.
Key legislation shaping post-apartheid inequality. South Africa has extremely high unemployment rates. The official unemployment rate is 31.9%, as of Q3 in 2023. [7] Redistribution aims to transfer white-owned commercial farms to Black South Africans. [8] Restitution involves giving compensation to land lost to whites due to apartheid, racism ...
A referendum on ending apartheid was held in South Africa on 17 March 1992. The referendum was limited to white South African voters, [1] [2] who were asked whether or not they supported the negotiated reforms begun by State President F. W. de Klerk two years earlier, in which he proposed to end the apartheid system that had been implemented since 1948.
Mandela was released in February 1990, which started the negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa. For the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Nelson Mandela's release was a moment of celebration, but it also started an enormously challenging period in which they struggled to maintain the momentum of the 1980s, and sustain public interest in South ...