post-apartheid
Following racial separation
Post-apartheid describes the period in South Africa after the end of the apartheid system of racial segregation, which officially ended with the 1994 democratic elections.
The term marks a historical boundary: post-apartheid South Africa, the post-apartheid generation, post-apartheid economic policies.
It often appears in discussions of the country's ongoing efforts to address racial inequality and reconciliation.
Sharing out again differently
- land reformRedistributing agricultural holdings
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- affirmative actionPrograms boosting marginalized representation
restitution · poverty · economic transformation · ownership · wealth gap · housing · service delivery · empowerment
Change from one state
- democracyRule by the people
- reconciliationRestoration of friendly relations
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
- MandelaSouth African liberation figure
multiracial · liberation · voting rights · parliament · governance · power-sharing · transformation · freedom
Group pardon from authorities
- reparationsCompensation for historical wrongs
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- healingRestoration of health
- forgivenessReleasing resentment toward offenders
accountability · Desmond Tutu · victims · perpetrators · confession · restorative justice · human rights · redress
Body of written works
- cinemaMotion picture theater
- musicOrganized auditory art
- artHuman creative expression
- identityWho someone is
memory · storytelling · representation · heritage · museums · Robben Island · commemoration · narrative
Combining into a whole
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
- education reformEfforts to better schooling
- identityWho someone is
- cultural diversityMultiple traditions in one society
township · migration · xenophobia · reconciliation · class divide · heritage · public health · community
redistribution
Sharing out again differently
- land reformRedistributing agricultural holdings
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
affirmative action · restitution · poverty · economic transformation · ownership · wealth gap · housing · service delivery · empowerment · dispossession
transition
Change from one state
- democracyRule by the people
- reconciliationRestoration of friendly relations
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
Mandela · multiracial · liberation · voting rights · parliament · governance · power-sharing · transformation · freedom · decolonization
amnesty
Group pardon from authorities
- reparationsCompensation for historical wrongs
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- healingRestoration of health
forgiveness · accountability · Desmond Tutu · victims · perpetrators · confession · restorative justice · human rights · redress · restitution
literature
Body of written works
identity · memory · storytelling · representation · heritage · museums · Robben Island · commemoration · narrative · voice
integration
Combining into a whole
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
- education reformEfforts to better schooling
- identityWho someone is
cultural diversity · township · migration · xenophobia · reconciliation · class divide · heritage · public health · community · interracial
- New South AfricaNelson Mandela, Mandela, rainbow nation, African National Congress, new constitution
- South African HistoryNelson Mandela, Mandela, Soweto, Sharpeville, Soweto uprising
post-apartheidapartheid
Racial separation policy
segregationist · segregation · racial separation · Jim Crow · colour bar
post, apartheid, apart, postwar, postcolonial, postmodern, posterior, posthumous, postpone