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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela's African National Congress promised South Africans "A Better Life For All" when it swept to power in the country's first democratic election in 1994 ...
Sandra Laing. Sandra Laing (born 26 November 1955) is a South African woman who was classified as Coloured by authorities during the apartheid era, due to her skin colour and hair texture, although she was officially listed as the child of at least three generations of ancestors who had been regarded as white. At the age of 10, she was expelled ...
There is an increasing concern about racial populism and anti-minority sentiment in post-Apartheid South Africa. Although apartheid was abolished in South Africa in 1991 and overt racism against black people is on the decline, [citation needed] some argue institutional racism is still common in South Africa.
Post-apartheid South Africa struggles to correct the social inequalities created by decades of apartheid. [1] White nepotism remains a considerable obstacle to economic gain and political influence for Black South Africans. [4] [5] Despite a growing gross domestic product, indices for poverty, unemployment, income inequality, life expectancy ...
South Africa is facing crushingly high unemployment levels, with the latest jobless figures ticking up slightly to 33% - ranked by the World Bank as the worst of any nation. Among young people, it ...
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 ...
With elections fast approaching in South Africa, the BBC's Nomsa Maseko reflects on 30 momentous years of democracy and how the country has changed since the end of the racist system of apartheid.
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.