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Give a brief account of the struggle against ‘Apartheid’ in South Africa.

  • UPSC 2006
  • Liberation from Colonial Rule

The struggle against apartheid was a decades-long, multi-phased movement that evolved from petition politics to armed resistance to a negotiated transition.

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  • Early Protest and the Turn to Mass Action
  • The Freedom Charter and the Widening Front
  • Sharpeville and the Shift to Armed Struggle
  • Underground Years, Black Consciousness and Soweto
  • Internationalising the Struggle
  • Negotiation and the End of Apartheid

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