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Apartheid and South Africa
The system of racial segregation in South Africa and its end.
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- How did Desmond Tutu's position as an Anglican clergyman shield him from the same repression faced by other anti-apartheid leaders?
- How did Nadine Gordimer portray the everyday mechanics of apartheid in her fiction rather than through polemic?
- How did the Sharpeville massacre earlier in 1960 shape the context in which Lutuli's prize was awarded?
- How does the Blaster anti-carjacking device work, and what triggers it?
- How long had Nelson Mandela been imprisoned before his release from Victor Verster Prison?
- How smooth was South Africa's transition to its first democratic elections in April 1994?
- What did F.W. de Klerk announce on 2 February 1990, and how did it change South Africa's trajectory?
- What restrictions had the South African government already placed on Albert Lutuli by the time he won the Nobel Peace Prize?
- What role did the South African Council of Churches play in organizing non-violent resistance to apartheid?
- What was the significance of Lutuli being the first African laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize?
- Why did the Nobel Committee frame Tutu's award around a sustained campaign rather than a single act?
- Why did the South African government ban several of Gordimer's books, and how did she respond?