apartheid

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He played a key role in the struggle against the racist system of apartheid and was imprisoned on Robben Island alongside former President Nelson Mandela.

From BBC

South Africa’s nuclear dismantlement during its transition from apartheid to democracy in the early 1990s offers a positive counterexample.

From The Wall Street Journal

Prior to 1994 and the end of South Africa's racist system of apartheid, the province now known as KwaZulu-Natal was split into two.

From BBC

He led the African National Congress in its struggle against apartheid - a system of legally enforced racism - and was released from prison in 1990.

From BBC

Relations between Washington and Pretoria are already at their lowest point since the end of apartheid rule in 1994.

From The Wall Street Journal