What Is Apartheid and How Did It End

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1. 12 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   2 corrections applied: Hampshire College is credited as the first US college to divest from apartheid South Africa (1977); Berkeley/UC did not divest until 1986 | Hector Pieterson was 12 when killed on 16 June 1976 (born Aug 1963)

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   FAQ schema: "Hector Pieterson" listed as 13-year-old; divestment FAQ answer named Berkeley as a lead divestment campaigner with no mention of Hampshire College being first (1977) or Berkeley's actual 1986 divestment date.

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   FAQ schema corrected: "the 12-year-old Hector Pieterson" (matching body text and his August 1963 birth date); divestment FAQ answer now reads "the divestment movement began on American university campuses in the 1970s, with Hampshire College becoming the first US college to divest in 1977; major universities such as Berkeley did not divest until 1986."

   Why: Body text and bibliography already had the correct facts (Hector Pieterson age 12, Hampshire College first divestment 1977, Berkeley 1986), but the same two fabrications (Pieterson listed as 13, Berkeley credited as leading divestment without the Hampshire correction) were still present in the page's JSON-LD FAQ schema. Fixed the FAQ field to match the corrected body content.

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