What Is an Oligarchy?
5. South Africa
South Africa is the southernmost nation of the African continent. Between 1948 and 1994, apartheid existed in the country. Apartheid was a systematic racist policy that saw indigenous colored people given fewer rights than the white people that were mostly the descendants of Dutch colonists.
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The white population of South Africa of the time made up just around 20% of the population and those that were in government held strict control over the rest of the population, especially the oppressed black population. It was president F.W. de Klerk that began to dismantle apartheid and, in 1994, Nelson Mandela became the nations’ first black president. This marked the end of apartheid, and of the oligarchy.
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