South Africa has no major navigable rivers, and this has always complicated the transportation of the country’s […]

The origin of apartheid Apartheid did not just happen overnight. Conflicts between Whites and Blacks had existed […]

South Africa has always been one of the richest and most developed countries in Africa. During the […]

South Africa officially had ten Black cultural groups. These groups were segregated and forced to live in […]

Although official policy said that South African Whites were part of the same community, in reality, their […]

“Coloured” culture In 1980 there were four ethnic groups in South Africa: Whites, Blacks, Asians and those […]

Apartheid is an Afrikaans word for separation or setting apart. The objective of apartheid was to separate […]

The following is a portrait of two ten-year-old boys who lived under apartheid in South Africa around […]

In March 1960, anti-apartheid activists organized demonstrations to protest, among other things, against the introduction of a […]

Only about 16% of South Africa’s total populationPopulation comes from the Latin populus, meaning “the people.”  We say populationPopulation comes from the Latin populus, meaning “the people.”  We say population when we talk about a group... […]

The government called this group Bantu, the name of their language, but they referred to themselves as […]

South African Coloured group  This group had roots in contacts between various Black populations and the first […]

Nelson Mandela was born into the Royal Family of the Xhosa nation, the second largest in South […]

Born in a Black township in a politically active family, Steve Biko himself was very active from […]

In 1980, South Africa had a populationPopulation comes from the Latin populus, meaning “the people.”  We say populationPopulation comes from the Latin populus, meaning “the people.”  We say population when we talk about a group... when […]