South Africa also relied on the process during its isolation in the apartheid era.
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Some have questioned whether the tournament was diverting funds needed to develop South Africa in the post-apartheid era.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to investigate crimes committed during the apartheid era in South Africa.
Mr. Kau co-founded "Blacks Only" nine years ago in a dig at exclusive white clubs of the apartheid era.
Brian Barron reported for the BBC from South Africa during the apartheid era.
The film, set during South Africa's apartheid era, is adapted from a novel of the same name by Caryl Fere.
Dirk Coetzee, one of the most notorious figures of South Africa's apartheid era, has died at the age of 57.
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Krok, along with his identical twin brother Solly Krok, made his first fortune selling skin-lightening creams during the apartheid era.
In housing, education and healthcare it has failed to make significant progress in tackling the inequalities left by the apartheid era.
Even though young people like her embody the hope of the post-apartheid era, it's not so easy to leave the past behind.
South Africa has just seen the worst disturbances since the apartheid era, with 34 platinum miners shot dead during a wildcat strike.
She says though the methods are the same, there's an important difference between the plays created under apartheid and those from the post-apartheid era.
Many of the apartheid laws were repealed in the early '90s, but a few of the apartheid era laws are controversially still on the books.
Meanwhile, the South African government will probably find a way to spare those who confess to political crimes committed during the apartheid era from prosecution.
Its Old Fort is a former prison that operated from pre-Boer War times in the late 19th Century and throughout the apartheid era until its closure in 1987.
Azar Jammine, an economist at Econometrix, a consultancy, argues that the booms and busts of the apartheid era have been replaced by a steadier growth trend.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter will grant honorary membership status to the Makana Football Association, which was formed by prisoners on the island during the apartheid era.
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The commission officially ends its work in July 1998 after more than two years of hearings and investigations into human rights violations committed during the apartheid era.
The stark exterior purposely evokes feelings of detention and oppression, and sets the scene for a dense journey through the reasoning, justification, practicalities, absurdities and struggle of the 45-year Apartheid era.
Winding up the hearings, the Commission hears testimony from Dr Wouter Basson in July 1998, who headed a government chemical and biological weapons programme during the apartheid era.
Unbeknownst to him, his records developed a cult following in South Africa during the apartheid era, when boycotts cut the country off culturally from the rest of the world.
The technology is not new, dating back to the 1920s and was used by Germany in World War II as well as South Africa during the apartheid era of isolation.
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Coetzee was central to many secrets of the apartheid era, but in giving him amnesty for his crimes, the Truth Commission found that he had simply been following orders from higher-ranking security police commanders.
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Like so much in South Africa, the taxi business is rooted in the political and economic distortions of the apartheid era, when the white-minority government forced blacks, whites and other ethnic groups to live in separate areas.
The African National Congress committee did not respond to CNN's repeated requests for comment, but it has said that the new bill is needed to update secrecy rules that have not changed since the apartheid era decades ago.
There is also a sense among ordinary black people that the white minority is still being allowed to keep the spoils from the apartheid era, and is unwilling to make voluntary sacrifices to help the poorest of the poor.
As a result of his work at the head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a body designed to examine human rights abuses in the apartheid era, Archbishop Tutu has been called on to help other governments and organisations, including in Northern Ireland.
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In the case of South Africa, another aspect to take into account is that women organizations, who actively participated in putting an end to the apartheid era, may wrongly perceive the demand for information access as an act of opposition to a government they strived to put in power.
The shootings caused huge shock in South Africa and led to comparisons with apartheid-era policing.
He then chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which investigated apartheid-era abuses and gave amnesty to those who confessed their involvement.
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