Human Rights Watch weighed in this week on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by using the term “apartheid” in its report on conditions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. For some, the term ...

In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: A person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Let me offer my own ...

Harriet A. Washington's "Medical Apartheid" not only speaks to a true and gruesome history, but it connects the dots of malpractices and ideologies that still affects communities of color today in the ...

Afrikaner nationalism and the coming of apartheid -- The Black experience : a prelude to apartheid -- The rise and decline of apartheid -- The decline and rise of the Black opposition -- The Soweto ...

Daniel Magaziner first met Omar Badsha in 2013 while in South Africa researching a book on art education under apartheid. Badsha, raised in Durban in a Gujarati Muslim family, was running an archival ...

Apartheid, meaning "apartness" in Afrikaans, was a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. This video provides a simplified ...

One of South Africa's most notorious apartheid police commanders testified on Monday at an inquiry into the killing of four activists in 1985 as part of the country's renewed focus on atrocities ...

South Africa's apartheid history and affinity to the Palestinian cause has helped shape its case of genocide against Israel, as lawyers on both sides prepare for the International Court of Justice.

Few words are more synonymous with 20th-century South African history than “apartheid”, the Afrikaans word for “apartness” that described the nation’s official system of racial segregation from 1948 ...

In the 1980s, South African urban areas were in open revolt against the apartheid government, which had institutionalized a system of racial segregation and political separation from 1948 to 1994. One ...

The MK Party has voiced strong opposition to the appointment of Roelf Meyer, a former apartheid-era minister, as South Africa’s Ambassador to the US.