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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Apartheid-era South Africa. | Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| Cross-reference added. | Mar 06, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Apartheid Museum - The Origins of Apartheid (PDF). | Dec 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science - Analysis of the Causes and Solutions of Apartheid Based on Schelling Model with Welfare Policy (PDF). | Oct 24, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Apartheid Museum - The Origins of Apartheid (PDF). | Feb 06, 2025 | ||
| Media added. | Sep 04, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | Jul 22, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Al Jazeera - South Africa: 30 years after apartheid, what has changed? | May 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford University - The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute - Apartheid. | Mar 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Gresham College - The Gospel of Apartheid. | Nov 05, 2023 | ||
| Cross-references added. | Sep 28, 2023 | ||
| Links added. | Jun 08, 2023 | ||
| Added cross-reference. | Apr 27, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - A Social History of the University Presses in Apartheid South Africa (PDF). | Jan 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - South Africa - Apartheid. | Nov 11, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Apartheid. | Aug 24, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Legal Information Institute - apartheid. | Aug 23, 2022 | ||
| Added additional detail about several legislative acts that formed the basis of apartheid. | Sep 30, 2021 | ||
| Changed “black” to “Black” throughout article. | Jul 23, 2020 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Feb 05, 2020 | ||
| Media added. | Dec 03, 2018 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 22, 2018 | ||
| Added mention of Nelson Mandela being elected as South Africa's first black president. | Dec 12, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: U.S. Department of State - Office of the Historian - The End of Apartheid. | Aug 05, 2016 | ||
| Added mention of the Sharpeville massacre. | Jun 03, 2015 | ||
| Added video. | Feb 06, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: BlackPast - Apartheid. | Oct 11, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Library of Economics and Liberty - Apartheid. | Jan 25, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: South African History Online - A history of Apartheid in South Africa. | Jan 25, 2013 | ||
| Added historical map showing location of Bantustans and a video from the apartheid era showing anti-apartheid rallies and Nelson Mandela speaking from jail about racial equality. | Oct 23, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: United Nations - Apartheid in South Africa. | Nov 10, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Synod of Antioch in Encaeniis. | Oct 16, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Sacred Destinations - Antioch, Turkey. | Jan 04, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Apartheid Origins. | Sep 19, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jul 05, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: African National Congress - World Leaders Against Apartheid. | Jul 12, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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