1978-1989

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1978-1989

South Africa

the end of apartheid?
1991
Examines recent challenges to apartheid such as the freeing of Nelson Mandela and the beginning of integration of public services; and speculates on the possibility and effects of black majority rule in South Africa.

Open the jail doors -- we want to enter

the Defiance campaign against Apartheid Laws, South Africa, 1952
2011
Discusses apartheid in South Africa and the fight for its prohibition, including notable protests, arrests, and anti-apartheid leaders that eventually brought the downfall of the system.

Anatomy of a miracle

the end of apartheid and the birth of the new South Africa
1997
A journalist traces the history of apartheid in South Africa discussing the forces which grew to oppose it and how a massive race war was avoided by the peaceful creation of a coalition government headed by Nelson Mandela.
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