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A History of Hate: Apartheid: From Bitter Almonds to the Rainbow Nation

Apartheid - From Bitter Almonds to the Rainbow Nation

Apartheid: From Bitter Almonds to the Rainbow Nation

A History of Hate

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Allan Little examines how apartheid was forged and then dismantled in South Africa.

Allan Little examines how the apartheid ideology was forged in South Africa. We also hear how apartheid was courageously dismantled, giving birth to a non-racial 'rainbow nation'.

In the last part of his series on the mechanics of hatred, Allan Little explores the roots of South Africa’s apartheid ideology. He learns how white Afrikaner nationalists used historical myths to cast themselves as God’s people, bringing the light of civilisation to a savage continent. These myths framed black people as barbarous and inferior, helping to justify the apartheid system, which legalised the dispossession of the black population. We also hear how the country managed to confront and dismantle its fears and hatreds, ending apartheid and forging a new, inclusive story of the rainbow nation.

Presenter: Allan Little
Producer:Xavier Zapata
Editor: Helen Grady

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