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The Making of Modern South Africa

11 min read 15 min listen Narrated by Sophie
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What’s it about?

A clear-eyed account of how conquest, racial capitalism, and resistance forged modern South Africa—from colonial land grabs to apartheid's rise and fall.

You’ll learn

  • How land dispossession shaped racial inequality
  • The role of gold in creating racial capitalism
  • Why apartheid was an intensification of segregation
  • How resistance movements forced apartheid's end