Apartheid historians Flashcards
Posel
“monstrous labyrinth system which dominated every facet of life”
system of “racial domination”
Worden - emergence of apartheid
“product of Africas industrial revolution”
Worden- end of Apartheid, de Klerk
1994 vote based on racial grounds rather than support, questions the ANC’s role
Argues that de Klerk was an “unexpected force”
Worden- end of Apartheid, three facrtors
“popular protest and international condemnation… [and] profound economic crisis”
Worden- Apartheid, Smuts
smuts- “cease to force the African into alien moulds”
protecting african culture from an industrialising society
Hazlett- emergence
economic factors a “prelude to apartheid”
Maylam- workers
“labour power without labourers”
Bonner and Dubow- emergence
new racial ideologies and pre-existing forms of racial domination
NP place for Afrikaners
Katz - counter argument to Hazlett
colour bar implemented to promote mine safety, not white economic superiority
Iliffe- end of A
economic
by 1980s government directing money away from crucial parts of economy
Price- end of A
role of ANC
able to manipulate national party and international stage
Giliomee- end of A
short-term factors
de Klerk
Giliomee- emergence
racial 18th century, race and class had overlapped for so long that to many Europeans, “social structure appeared to be natural or god-given”
Gelb- end of A
economy
racial fordism- artificial growth
O’Meara- end of A
whites realised their power needed to be sacrificed for their prosperity to continue
