Apartheid Flashcards
What Act divided people into whites an nowhites?
the Population Registration Act of 1950
What three categories were non-whites divided into?
Colored, Indian and Bantu
what act determined where various races could live?
The Group Areas Act (1950)
what act forced black students into public schools? What were they taught?
Bantu Education Act (1953) Schooling emphasized racial difference. and taught bare skills needed to serve whites
In what year did the President of South Africa Declare a State of Emergency? Who was the President and why did he do this?
1985 P.W. Botha. In response to the ungovernability of the Black townships.Fro
what was the campaign by the ANC to resist apartheid? What year?
The Defiance Campaign. Begun in 1953
What was the Congress Alliance? what year?
A group formed between Black Indian and white radical political groups in 1955
What was the document that proposed a blueprint for an equal society. What year?”
The “Freedom Charter” 1956
What was the Sharpesville Massacre
A massacre that occured on the 21st of March 1960 in which 69 demonstrators were killed and 180 injured
In what year di the Pan African Congress form as a splinter of the ANC. Why?
In 1958-9. Africanists resented the influence of white liberals and the South African Communist Party
In what year was the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the President of the banned ANC? What was his name?
- Albert Luthuli
what was the armed wing of the ANC?
Umkhonto we Sizwe “Spear of the Nation”
How did resistance re-emerge in the 1970s
In the form of strikes particularly in Natal
What was Black Consciousness?
a movement comparable to Negritude intended to develop Black self-respect
When did the Soweto Massacre take place, how many schoolchildren were killed?
the 16th of June 1976. Police opened fire on 15000 school children
