71. Nelson Mandela Part 1- The History of Apartheid
Trigger warning: extreme racial violence and discriminationThank you to patreon supporters for making this episode possible: patreon.com/montemaderThe Dutch arrived at the Cape in 1652, dispossessing the Khoikhoi and San and building a slave economy racially ordered from the start. Britain took over in 1806; abolition in 1834 helped drive the Boer Great Trek inland. Diamonds (1867) and Witwatersrand gold (1886) demanded cheap Black labor, producing pass laws, migrant labor, and compounds — apartheid's machinery in embryo. The 1910 Union unified white rule and excluded Black voters; the 1913…
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