JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- When Richard Maponya did well as a clothes salesman, his white boss could not promote him under the rules of apartheid. So the boss offered instead to sell Maponya ...
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Apartheid explained: Key events and legacy

Apartheid, meaning "apartness" in Afrikaans, was a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination in South ...
*More from South Africa as I visited Soweto about 25 minutes by road from Johannesburg. I remembered Nigerian musician, Sonny Okosuns‘ liberation songs such as “Fire In Soweto Song” and “Papa’s Land.” ...
SOWETO, South Africa -- The tour van pulls up, and the guide sweeps his hand toward a view of squatter camps crowded with rusted tin shacks and open-air markets where folk remedies for AIDS are sold ...
File - South African photographer Peter Magubane, speaks with The Associated Press during an interview at his home, in Johannesburg, Thursday June 2, 2016. Magubane, a fearless photographer who ...