There is pride in this sense of apartness, and that pride has been stung repeatedly since 2006, when the F.

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In Afrikaans their language apartheid simply means "apartness, " a benign and harmless concept, but as it came to be applied to black South Africans, it translated into a brutal system of segregation and subjugation that would last for nearly half a century and eventually subject the country to international condemnation, to economic and political pressures that would finally contribute to its demise.

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