Sites linked to South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle make UNESCO Heritage List

Several sites in South Africa associated with the country’s long and bloody anti-apartheid struggle have recently been added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage List.

The system of institutionalized racial segregation came into being in South Africa following the Second World War. It was finally eradicated in the early 1990s – largely due to the sacrifices of activists like…