When Soheila was 5 years old, she was given away in marriage to an old man as compensation for her older brother's crime: stealing the man's third wife. After years of abuse in the marriage, "I...
2015 DOCUMENTARY: RACISM IN SOUTH AFRICA AFTER APARTHEID
The political system of Apartheid, a brutal form of racial segregation in South Africa enforced by the white Afrikaner minority, took away the basic rights of the majority black inhabitants. Even though that political system officially came to an end in 1994, to what extent does racism and racial segregation still exist in South Africa?
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