Germanic invaders may not have ruled by apartheid

When a strong Germanic signal was discovered in the Y-chromosome of British men, geneticists at University College London suggested that enslavement and apartheid imposed by Saxon invaders was responsible. ( Read more... )

An apartheid society existed in early Anglo-Saxon Britain, research suggests.

Scientists believe a small population of migrants from Germany, Holland and Denmark established a segregated society when they arrived in England. The researchers think the incomers changed the local gene pool by using their economic advantage to out-breed the native ( Read more... )

Sunday January 22, 2006, The Observer

For a growing number of Afrikaners, the new South Africa is an alien world of squatters' camps and begging bowls. Photojournalist Simon Wood meets the people who lost most when Mandela won.It is a Thursday afternoon at a busy intersection in Johannesburg's Bryanston district. The traffic robot turns green and ( Read more... )

Leon Marshall in Johannesburg for National Geographic News, October 19, 2005

Thirty-six years ago, South Africa's white-minority government forced a small community known as the Makuleke people from their land so that it could be included in Kruger National Park. They resisted. But their houses were destroyed, and the Makuleke were put on trucks ( Read more... )