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Engraving of Cetawayo, king of Zulu under British guard

Apartheid’s roots: The Natives Lands Act

Source: BBC

Apartheid, the system of racial segregation that controlled South Africa until the 1990s, was set in place through a law from over a century ago that unfairly allotted land.

This entry was posted in The Struggle for Freedom and tagged History on September 1, 2016 by Mikki Gibson.

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