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The white-minority government of South Africa treated the natives very badly by denying them fundamental rights and made Apartheid as official policy. How were the people able to end Apartheid policy and establish a transitional rule?

  • UPSC 2021
  • Liberation from Colonial Rule

The question asks not why apartheid was wrong but how an entrenched racial state was actually dismantled and replaced by a transitional order.

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  • Internal Pressure That Made the Old System Unworkable
  • The Cost of Isolation
  • From Botha's Limited Reforms to de Klerk's Reversal
  • CODESA and the Negotiated Path to Power-Sharing
  • The Interim Constitution and Transitional Executive
  • The 1994 Election and the Government of National Unity

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