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…They stood in the voting queues [lines] together—white, black, Colored, Indian—and they discovered that they were compatriots [countrymen]. White South Africans found that a heavy weight of guilt had been lifted from their shoulders. They are discovering what we used to tell them—that freedom is indivisible, that black liberation inexorably [inevitably] meant white liberation. We have seen a miracle unfolding before our very eyes—it is a dream coming true. It is a victory for all South Africans. It is a victory for democracy and freedom.…

— Bishop Desmond Tutu, The Rainbow People of God: The Making of a Peaceful Revolution

The event described in this passage signifies the end of which policy?
(1)apartheid
(2)détente
(3)colonialism
(4)appeasement

Answer 1

(3) Colonialism
I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1964, the year Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Civil Rights Act was passed in the United States, and Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison.