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South Africa The End of White Majority Rule in South Africa 'Nelson Mandela was the main reason why South Africa was able to make a peaceful change from Apartheid to majority rule' Explain how far you agree with this statement. Apartheid was a system set up by the Afrikaner government, the National Party, in 1948. Apartheid was a system of racial segregation, which involved separating people into racial groups, and treating them according to that. There were many laws imposed under the heading of 'Apartheid', ranging from the Mixed Marriages Act (1949) which stopped people of different races marrying to the Separate Amenities Act (1953) which designated all public areas and facilities for use either by 'Europeans' or 'Non-Europeans'. It was a way for the white people of the country to control the lives of all the black people, with the whites benefiting off it. Nelson Mandela was a key figure in...

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