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  • More than 3.5 million black South Africans were forced to live on arbitrary reservations called Bantustans, depriving them of political power and pushing them into poverty.
  • At the end of apartheid, white South Africans (who made up some 10% of the population of the country) owned roughly 90% of South Africa's land as a result of a series of Land Acts.
  • More than 170 people died in the Soweto student protests.

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Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Video thumbnail image shows Black South African schoolchildren standing behind a fence.
Uncovering apartheid history in Cape Town's District Six
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Nelson Mandela: From shepherd to president
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