Tonight hundreds of people took part in a torchlit procession through Bristol to mark the release of the worlds most famous prisoner. (BBC television news, February 1990)

I have collected together a range of sources looking at the end of apartheid in South Africa. The aim is to help GCSE students (14-16 years old) to think about the relative importance of the different people, groups, and factors which played a part in the end of white minority rule. I’m still looking for some more sources, for example the Lusaka Manifesto, but the sources gathered so far can be seen on the ‘apartheid’ pages.