41.   But four years after apartheid ended, the church that formed the religious backbone of white minority rule was balking at the proposal.

42.   Commission chairman Desmond Tutu has asked apartheid rulers to apologize for injustices and atrocities under white minority rule, but few have complied.

43.   Crime has cast a blight on the country five years after the end of white minority rule.

44.   De Kock has applied for amnesty from the Truth Commission for many of his crimes, claiming they were politically motivated to defend white minority rule against communist insurgency.

45.   During the anti-apartheid struggle, Mandela expressed annoyance with the PAC for not coordinating its actions with the larger ANC in the struggle against white minority rule.

46.   During the apartheid era, when the Afrikaner-led National Party governed the country, the church told members that white minority rule was ordained by biblical teachings.

47.   Duniaski said the end of white minority rule allowed relations between South Africa and Namibia to normalize.

48.   During apartheid, the white minority forced blacks to learn English and Afrikaans -- the language of the descendants of early Dutch and French settlers.

49.   Elections that April ended white minority rule and put the black-led African National Congress in power.

50.   European cultural events like the Three Tenors enjoy a strong following from well-off whites who were denied such pleasures during decades of international boycott against white minority rule.