South Africa implemented a system of apartheid, or racial segregation, from 1948 to 1994. Under apartheid, the white minority government classified citizens by race and enforced laws that favored white people over other races. This included segregating residential and public areas, restricting the movement of non-whites, enforcing inferior education for black citizens, and prohibiting interracial relationships or unions. The apartheid system faced increasing international isolation and sanctions through the 1960s-1980s due to the growing anti-apartheid movement. Eventually, apartheid was dismantled in the early 1990s through negotiations between the African National Congress and the white government, leading to South Africa's first multiracial democratic elections. However, the legacy of apartheid continues

1. South Africa under Apartheid

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8. Children of Soweto, a black township some ten miles away from Johannesburg. The Zulu word "Amandla" scrawled on the wall means "Power" and has been adopted as a rallying call in the struggle for black rights. (http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail/108/0108701.html) Location: Soweto, South Africa Date: 01 January 1982

9. Graveyard outside Ekuvukene, a village in KwaZulu "homeland", Natal. The infant mortality rate for white South Africans is one of the lowest in the world, for blacks it is one of the highest. In the so-called black "homelands" like KwaZulu - remote, fragmented, unproductive bits and pieces of land scattered around the country - almost half of the children die before age five. Location: Natal, South Africa Date: 01 January 1982

10. 1960 - 5-7,000 people meet to protest passbooks. Police opened fired; 69 blacks were killed. ANC and PAC banned. **TURNING POINT : South Africa found themselves shunned more and more by the international community