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Officially, there was no apartheid regime, but in the colonial society a colour bar actually existed. Photograph of a butcher for Europeans, [1950-1959].
NAB, Archives Sibéka, no. 4989.

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125 years after the General Act of the Berlin Conference

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The failing model colony