Krogh, Peter F. (Peter Frederic)

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In this double length episode, host Peter Krogh travels to South Africa where he examines the events that would eventually lead to the end of apartheid. Between 1948 and 1994 the apartheid laws created a system of legalized segregation, denying millions of South Africa\u2019s blacks access to jobs, education, and political rights. In 1990 President Frederik De Klerk freed Nelson Mandela and legalized political opposition, beginning South Africa\u2019s gradual transition into a multi-racial democracy. However, despite the anti-apartheid movement\u2019s increasing momentum, differences about how a post-apartheid South Africa should be structured revealed rifts within the non-white community. In Natal province a vicious civil war raged between supporters of Nelson Mandela\u2019s African National Congress (ANC) and backers of Inkatha, the Zulu political organization led by Mangosuthu Buthelezi. On the other side of the country in Cape Town, the ANC\u2019s efforts to unite the anti-apartheid groups under their own leadership met further opposition from the more militant Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), which disagreed with the ANC on the issue of negotiations with the white government. In the Orange Free State province, the legalization of political opposition led to numerous black African organizations protesting apartheid, but also to the creation of Afrikaner nationalist groups such as the right wing neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement. While not overwhelmingly popular, these groups represented the considerable portion of non-black South Africans that remained committed to retaining some form of white supremacy. In light of these contradictory visions for the future of South Africa, this episode examines the...

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