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A proper noun or proper name is a noun representing a unique entity as opposed to a common noun, which represents a class of entities or non-unique instances of that class. Proper nouns are usually, but not invariably, capitalized in English.
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Should apartheid be capitalised?
In the context you have, I would capitalize it, because it refers to a specific period in history.
However, if you were to use the word not as the name of a period, but to refer to the phenomenon, a …
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