apartheid

Born in Middelburg, South Africa, in 1932 to an immigrant English father of Irish descent and a mother from an Afrikaner family, Fugard lived through the rise and fall of apartheid.

The son of an Afrikaner mother, he was best known for his politically charged plays challenging the racist system of apartheid.

Palestine Action describes itself as a "direct action network dismantling British complicity with Israeli apartheid".

"Afghanistan is experiencing gender apartheid, with women systematically excluded from basic rights, including education," a student said.

Land ownership has been a contentious issue in South Africa with most private farmland owned by white people, 30 years after the end of the racist system of apartheid.