Apartheid Overview

Question 1

List some of laws racial segregation laws that happened before apartheid came

Answer 1

Native Land Act
The Durban Land Alienation Ordinance
The industrial concilliation Act

Question 2

Laws after apartheid came into power

Answer 2

The bantu authorities across
Immorality amendement act
The prohibiotan of mixed marriages

Question 3

When was the freedom charter drawn up

Answer 3

June 1955

Question 4

What was the freedom charter

Answer 4

It was a manifesto, for the aims of South Africa

Question 5

Why were people arrested and what happened

Answer 5

They were arrested on June 27th 1955, as police surrounded them , people were arrested , documents were confiscated and the delegates were photographed

Question 6

How long did the treason trials last

Answer 6

5 YRS but it was severely weakened as their leaders were in jail

Question 7

What was the purpose of the freedom charter

Answer 7

It was, to make all lives quell, motivator for people to get through apartheid, to remove all the apartheid laws

Question 8

What were the bantustans

Answer 8

They were homelands, for African people

Question 9

What percentage of South Africa were these homeland

Answer 9

Only 13 percent and between 1976 and 81 4 homelands were declared independent, and 8 million South Africans lost their citizenship q

Question 10

What were the condition in the bantustans

Answer 10

Over crowded
Bad soil quality
Few jobs
Kept afloat by massive subsidizes

Question 11

Who ruled these homelands

Answer 11

The chiefs and they were cookout and little wealth trickled frown

Question 12

Where did they find work

Answer 12

Many of them had to apply to become guest workers in south adrica, millions worked in Appanna un condions

Question 13

When did sharpvile happen

Answer 13

It happened on march 21 1960

Question 14

How many people were they in sharpville

Answer 14

5,000 but polic claimed 20,000

Question 15

What contradicted police evidence

Answer 15

Police evidence claimed the crowd was hostile while this was untrue
Some police officers claimed the crowd had not difficulty

Question 16

How many people died in sharpville

Answer 16

69 people

Question 17

When did the Soweto apprisings happen

Answer 17

June 16th, 1976

Question 18

What were the Soweto apprising

Answer 18

They were protesting against the introduction of Afrikaans as the infrastructure in schools

Question 19

Why did they not want the Afrikaans, Soweto apprising

Answer 19

They did not want this as it seemed as the language of the oppressor, they had never learn it
And english was more globally prominence y

Question 20

How and what happened when they protested, Soweto

Answer 20

They marched towards the Orlando stadium, polic confronted them leading to violence after a warning shot

Question 21

What were the causalities of this

Answer 21

176 students died
DR Melville edelstein, a white doctor was killed by students

Question 22

Who was hector piterston

Answer 22

He was a 13yr old who died and became a symbol of the uprising

Question 23

What was the aftermath of the uprising

Answer 23

The protests turned into a war zone with ongoing violence throughout the day, hospitals struggled, violence subsided by the evening

Question 24

What was the passive resistance campaign of 1946-48

Answer 24

It was a response to the smuts ad=siatic aland tenure bill for Indian s

Question 25

What were the actions, during the passive resistance campaign

Answer 25

Indians pitched tents, in municipal area and may were arrested, it laid the ground work for African Indian coop

Question 26

What was the defiance campaign of 1952

Answer 26

It was a peaceful protest by the anc, SAIC, and the colored peoples congress, it included failing to carry passes, violating curfew, entering locations and facilities for one

Question 27

What were the consequences of defiance campaign

Answer 27

8000 volunteers jailed, increased penalties for the defiance

Question 28

What was Nelson mandela, trials, and when did it happen

Answer 28

It happened between 9th October 1963 and 12 June 1964, it was called the Rivonia Trials.

Question 29

What was Nelson Mandela convicted of

Answer 29

He was convicted of treason, lead to the imprisonment, sentenced to life

Question 30

What does Nelson Mandela deny and what does he admit

Answer 30

. ANC has nothing to do with foreigners or communism
.He admitted to creating the spear of the national, (umkontwe)

Question 31

What does Nelson Mandela sat inspired his fight against apartheid

Answer 31

How his ancestor fought in defense of the nation, tribes

Question 32

What reason does Mandela give for forming Umkhonto we sizwe

Answer 32

He did this in result of the apartheid policies
Also, without sabotage the go ement t wouldn’t listen to the protest
When the government resorted to a show of force.

Question 33

What does Mandela say wa the intention of the defiance capaign

Answer 33

To avoid violence based on passive resistance and defyin g apartheid laws

Question 34

What was his role in the defiance campaign

Answer 34

He was in charge of volunteers and organis and train them

Question 35

What does Mandela say were the consequences of the sharpville massacre

Answer 35

The consequences declared a state of emergency and the ANC was banned but it was operated in secured
Silencesd the people

Question 36

How does Mandela justify moving away from a policy of peaceful protest to a more violent approach

Answer 36

Because all peaceful protests had failed and the government used to conquer the peaceful protests
Followers bring confidence which formed the PAC
Starting terrosim as people are restless

Question 37

Who does Mandela blame for the escalation of violence in the anti-apartheid protests? Why?

Answer 37

The whites as they reported sabotages spoiled be punished by death, and it was close to a civil war

Question 38

When was the PAC formed, and what was it

Answer 38

It was formed in April 1959, called the the pan African congress