Apartheid (essential class highlights only)

Question 1

What act restricted native South Africans to only 7 percent of the nations land?

Answer 1

The Native Land Act of 1913 (Amended 1917)

Question 2

What words were Black South Africans referred to by

Answer 2

Kafirs, Bantu

Question 3

What was the meaning of Kafir?

Answer 3

Heathen

Question 4

When was the South African Native National Congress formed?

Answer 4

1912

Question 5

When did the South African Native National Congress become the African National Congess?

Answer 5

1923

Question 6

When did the Soweto Massacre take place, how many schoolchildren were killed?

Answer 6

the 16th of June 1976. Police opened fire on 15000 school children

Question 7

What act restricted where an what native South Africans could be taught

Answer 7

the Bantu Education Act (1953)

Question 8

In what year was a State of Emergency declared? Who declare it and why?

Answer 8

P.W. Botha- the ungovernability of the townships-1985

Question 9

what did whit african farmers call themselves?

Answer 9

Boers/ Afrikaaners