The End of Apartheid

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Former South African police minister on ending apartheid, eyewitness to Black Hawk Down, landmark sexual harassment case in India, the last South American war and a record breaking solo trek across the Antarctic Picture: Anti-apartheid protestors demonstrate in Cape Town on the same day that President de Klerk announced the lifting of the ban on the ANC and the release of all political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela (Credit: RASHID LOMBARD/AFP/Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson,
0:05.1	the past brought to life by those who were there.
0:08.4	This week Black Hawk Down, the true story of a botched American intervention in Somalia.
0:13.2	I remember the first helicopter was it.
0:16.4	It was just going down like this.
0:18.4	And where it landed, it is less than 700 yards from my home.
0:25.0	Also what some have called the pointless war between Peru and Ecuador in the 1990s,
0:31.0	plus the first man to cross the whole of Antarctica, solo and unaided, and a landmark sexual
0:37.3	harassment case in India.
0:39.6	What are two inches of her bottom compared to the integrity of India.
0:44.1	Well I can tell you that I think every inch of a woman's body is her own.
0:49.3	We'll hear all about that case later in the podcast, but we begin this week in South Africa and one of the moments which history has
0:56.2	judged as being among the most significant for the African continent as a whole and for the power of popular
1:02.3	protest. Ever since 1948 South Africa was a
1:06.0	white ruled country because of apartheid, the system of segregation which denied
1:10.5	the black population basic human rights.
1:13.0	The struggle for majority rule had been long, bitter and often bloody by the time it came to early 1990,
1:20.0	when President de Clerke dramatically announced the end of apartheid.
1:23.6	Louise Hidalgo has been talking to Adrian Vlock,
1:26.8	who was FW declerk's police minister,
1:29.1	about that day and about coming to terms with the crimes that have been committed in a Part 8's name. On the 2nd of February 1990, President F. W. decl clerk stood up at the opening of Parliament and delivered a speech that
1:46.0	shook the world. In 30 minutes transforming South Africa after 40 years of white minority
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