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It was an October day in 1993. The world watched as history was made. It seemed impossible just a few years back. But Nelson Mandela and Frederick de Klerk were receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. They had transformed the nation of South Africa.

Mandela and de Klerk received the Nobel Prize for helping end apartheid. Apartheid means "being separate" in the Afrikaans language. And apartheid was the political system that separated the races of South Africa. Since 1948, apa...