What broke the Apartheid System in South Africa?

It wasn't one specific event that lead to the fall of Apartheid. A number of factors combined to ensure its end. Economic isolation - Due to sanctions South Africa was isolated economically. read more

It wasn't one specific event that lead to the fall of Apartheid. A number of factors combined to ensure its end. Economic isolation - Due to sanctions South Africa was isolated economically. read more

Despite strong and consistent opposition to apartheid within and outside of South Africa, its laws remained in effect for the better part of 50 years. In 1991, the government of President F.W. de Klerk began to repeal most of the legislation that provided the basis for apartheid. read more

Apartheid called for the separate development of the different racial groups in South Africa. Translated from the Afrikaans meaning 'apartness', apartheid was the ideology supported by the National Party (NP) government and was introduced in South Africa in 1948. read more