apartheid

This mainly refers to South Africa's majority black population, which was shut out of the economy during the racist system of apartheid.

A South African court is due to re-examine the circumstances around the death of one of the most renowned campaigners against the racist system of apartheid, which had initially been described as accidental.

As I say in my book, we have our own homegrown authoritarian tradition rising from this period and the establishment of racial apartheid in the South.

Simultaneously, South Africa's white minority possess the vast majority of privately held land and wealth in the country, more than 30 years since the racist system of apartheid ended.

Prof Madlingozi says that South Africa became the "poster child" of racial reconciliation following the end of apartheid, and inspired the world in many ways.