Apartheid
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How South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission reshaped racial boundaries post-apartheid
Thirty years after South Africa created its Truth and Reconciliation Commission, its legacy remains contested. New evidence shows why: the TRC helped bring Black South Africans closer together, but also deepened the divide between Black and White com...
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Thirty years of inequality and redistribution in post-Apartheid South Africa
South Africa remains the most unequal country in the world despite the end of apartheid thirty years ago. Racial inequalities have declined but these gains have largely benefited a new Black elite. Government redistribution is substantial and has ach...
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The long shadow of apartheid: How forced relocation to homelands still affects South Africa
This article explores the extent to which apartheid negatively impacted educational attainment, and shows that this occurred primarily through changing early childhood environments