apartheid
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He became a prominent advocate for ending apartheid in South Africa, and in the 1990s served as presidential special envoy to Africa for Bill Clinton.
From Barron's
He played a key role in the struggle against the racist system of apartheid and was imprisoned on Robben Island alongside former President Nelson Mandela.
From BBC
South Africa’s nuclear dismantlement during its transition from apartheid to democracy in the early 1990s offers a positive counterexample.
Prior to 1994 and the end of South Africa's racist system of apartheid, the province now known as KwaZulu-Natal was split into two.
From BBC
He led the African National Congress in its struggle against apartheid - a system of legally enforced racism - and was released from prison in 1990.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
