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Apartheid was introduced by

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National Party in South Africa in 1948 after DF Malan and National Party gained power

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_________ government immediately began…

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All-white
Enforcing and adding to existing policies of racial segregation

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Apartheid translated means

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Separateness

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Apartheid was a system

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Of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa from 1948 to early 1990’s

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Apartheid was characterised

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By an authoritarian culture based on baasskap

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Baasskap

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Ensured SA was dominated politically, socially and economically through country’s dominant minority white population

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Hierarchy of races in SA during Apartheid

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  1. White citizens (highest status)
  2. Indian & coloured people
  3. Black people
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________ & _________ of apartheid ________

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Economic legacy
Social effects
Continue to present day, particularly inequality

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Goal of Apartheid policies

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To separate the different races in all respects - socially,politically, economically and territorially: to keep white poeple in a position of power and control

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These apartheid laws ruled:

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  • How people were classified
  • Where people could live
  • What amenities people could use
  • Who people could marry
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These apartheid laws were passed by

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National Party government to ensure white minority rule

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Apartheid laws:

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  • The Population Registration Act
  • The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act
  • The Immorality Act
  • The Group Areas Act
  • The Abolition of Passes Act
  • The Separate Amenities Act
  • The Bantu Education Act
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Population Registration Act

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1950: forced South Africans to classify/register into one of four groups: White, Indian, Coloured/Black

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Were largely determined by the group which an individual belonged:

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  • Social rights
  • Political rights
  • Educational opportunities
  • Economic status
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3 Basic classifications under the law

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  • Black
  • White
  • Coloured (mixed)

Indians were added later: initially seen as having “no historical right to the country”

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Criteria for separating Coloured People from White People

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  • Characteristics of person’s head hair
  • Characteristics of person’s other hair
  • Skin colour
  • Facial features
  • Home language & especially knowledge of Afrikaans
  • Area where person’s lives, friends & acquaintances
  • Employment
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Eating and drinking habits
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The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act

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1949
- Made it illegal for black and white people to marry each other. Introduced by apartheid government and part of its overall policy of separateness.

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Consequences of breaking The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act

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  • People are arrested and charged for breaking its provisions
  • Interracial marriages of South Africans that occurred outside the country are nullified
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Immorality Amendment Act

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1950
- Forbid unmarried sexual intercourse between “Europeans” and anyone not “European
- Enforcement of the act was up to police who often followed people to their homes to ensure there were not in violation of the law

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Consequences of breaking the Immorality Amendment Act

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Police would raid the homes of those believed to be in mixed marriages

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The Group Areas Act

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1950
- Divided the towns and cities of the country into separate residential and business areas for each race group

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Consequences of breaking Group Areas Act

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  • People (Indians, Coloured/Blacks) are removed from areas (designated for whites) by police and are then forced to live in newly designated area
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The Abolition of Passes Act

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1952
- Forced all black men (over age of 16) to carry a pass/reference book/dompass
- Illegal to be without a pass
- Pass books severely restricted movements of Black South Africans and other racial groups by confining them to designated areas/allowed black people to enter “white” South Africa to work
- 1956 law was extended to include women

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Consequences of breaking Abolition of Passes Act

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To be without a pass the penalty was arrest & jail

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Pass books included

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Detailed information, including employment information and evaluations from employers (fingerprints)

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The Separate Amenities Act

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1953
- To create separate social environments for white and other population groups
- Enforced segregation of facilities and services e.g. hospitals, post offices, trains and buses etc.

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The Bantu Education Act

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1953
- Bantu Education: majorly long term impact “black” education
- Introduced a system of education: designed to serve apartheid and train black people for unskilled work
- Government spent far more on education for white children than black children
- Long shortage of qualified teachers: teacher-student rates ranged from 40-1 to 60-1
- Intended to spread idea that blacks were to accept being subservient to white South Africans

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Money spent for schools:

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  1. Whites
  2. Indians & coloured
  3. Blacks
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African-American in USA resisted

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Jim Crow laws

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People in South Africa resisted

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Apartheid laws

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Different Resistance Campaigns:

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  • Defiance Campaign
  • Freedom Character & Congress of People
  • Women’s March to the Union Buildings
  • Sharpeville Massacre
  • Armed Struggle & Rivonia Trial
  • Steve Biko & the Black Consciousness Movement
  • Soweto Uprising
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Defiance Campaign

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1952
- ANC got together with SA Indian Congress and decided to take a stand
- They demanded Apartheid Government to abolish 6 Apartheid laws/they would launch an act of defiance
- Government ignored their demands: 26th of June 1952 ANC with support of other allied grouping launched their Defiance Campaign
- Lasted 3 months, over 8000 people arrested: organisers (ANC) called off the campaign

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Purpose of the Defiance Campaign

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Volunteers would break apartheid laws, get arrested and be locked up until country’s jails were overflowing and state wouldn’t be able to operate and volunteers would be heard

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What they did in Defiance Campaign:

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  • Black volunteers walked through “European Only” entrances
  • Sat in parks set aside for whites
  • Burned their pass books
  • Visited white only beaches
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Results of Defiance Campaign

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  • Laws were not repealed
  • Defiance Campaign was a huge success, showed what people standing together could do
  • Saw the Movement of ANC from moderation to military
  • Inspired and drew people together (for the first time different race groups were engaging in joined political action under common leadership)
  • Served as an inspiration to Civil Rights Activists in US
  • Gained worldwide attention and highlighted racism present in South Africa
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Congress of the People

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1955
- End of Defiance Campaign, leaders of black, coloured, indian and white groups came together to form the Congress Alliance (partly because of new unity found during Defiance Campaign)
- Alliance organised the Congress of People: 26th June 1955, meeting held in Kiptown of about 3000 people to lay out the vision for a new South Africa

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Vision for new South Africa

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  • Democratic
  • Non-racial South Africa
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Freedom Charter

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At Congress of the People, Freedom Charter was adopted (document that was drawn up). Our constitution today is based on this charter

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What people wanted for a new South Africa

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  • The People shall Govern!
  • The People shall Share in the Country’s Wealth!
  • All shall Enjoy Human Rights!
  • The Doors of Learning and of Culture shall be Opened!
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Result of Congress of People

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  • Drew up the Freedom Charter
  • Treason Trial (were not found guilty - lasted for 4 years)
  • Unity in Apartheid movement
  • Government repression
  • Impact on future
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Women’s March to the Union Buildings

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09 August 1956
- By 1955: Apartheid Government decided to extend Pass Laws to Women
- Women of all races (horrified) organised a march for 9th August 1956 through Pretoria
- 20 000 women marched on Union Buildings to present anti-pass petitions to Prime Minister Strijdom (refused to see them, thousands of forms were left at his door)

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At Union Buildings women sang a song composed from this occasion

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“Strijdom, you have tampered with the women, you have struck a rock”

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Purpose of Women’s March

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Protest against passes for women calling them an insult to all women

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4 Chosen leaders of the Women’s March day

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  • Rohima Moosa
  • Lilian Ngoyi
  • Helen Joseph
  • Sophia Williams
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Significant points about Women’s March

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  • People of different race groups coming together
  • Women for the 1st time stood against Apartheid
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9th August in now celebrated as

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South Africa’s Women’s Day

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Resistance to apartheid grew_____

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Steadily during 1950’s and was carried out by a number of different groups/race groups e.g. women, worker and trade unionists

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1950’s

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Decade of Defiance

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Sharpeville Massacre

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21 March 1960
- March 1959, the Pan Africa Congress (PAC) were formed, led by Robert Sokukwe
- PAC organised an anti-pass campaign for 21 March 1960: where people walk with leaders to local police stations, burn their passes and wait to be arrested
- People were unarmed (peaceful protest) gathered outside police station in Sharpeville near Vereeniging
- Police were nervous when it seemed the fence around station was about to collapse to they started firing

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1959/late 1950’s

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“Africanists” within the ANC didn’t agree with the multiracial way in which the organisation was working

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When police opened fire in Sharpeville…

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People tried to run away and many were shot in the back (showed people were running away)
Within minutes: 69 lay dead and 180 wounded (police massacre)

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PAC started…

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Competing with ANC for membership and support

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Most hated law

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Pass law

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Celebrated on 21 March

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Human Rights Day

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Results of Sharpeville Massacre

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  • Made Headline news
  • Drew awareness to the cause
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Sharpeville Massacre was the…

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Turning point/shift: ANC and PAC were banned/illegal

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The Armed Struggle

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  • State reacted to Sharpeville Massacre, imposing a state of emergency and curfews in areas of unrest (harsh response by the government)
  • All political meetings/mass actions and ANC and PAC were banned
  • June 1961: ANC established an armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe/MK (Spear of the Nation)
  • PAC armed wing: Poqo
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Peaceful action just resulted in government violence…

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Only resistance left to ANC & PAC was to resort to violence

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Purpose of Armed Struggle

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To sabotage/blow up state buildings, not to take lives, to set bombs

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uMkhonto weSizwe Specific targets

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  • Power stations
  • Police stations
  • Government posts
  • Machines
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Rivonia Trial

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  • Government’s stance didn’t change, by 1963 Nelson Mandela & rest of ANC leadership had been arrested & charged with trying to overthrow government (treason)
  • 8 men including Nelson Mandela received life sentence and were imprisoned on Robben Island
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Was called Rivonia trial because

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Nelson Mandela & rest of ANC leadership’s headquarters had been at Rivonia, outside Johannesburg

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Movement

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To change people’s mindset

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Consciousness

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Awareness

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Banning of ANC and PAC & its leadership lead to

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The new movement Black Consciousness Movement to take lead in resisting the government but also developing the black culture, music and literature

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Leader of BCM

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By 1968, Steve Biko a powerful speaker and founder of South African Students Organisations became leader of BCM

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Steve Biko

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  • Travelled all over South Africa, encouraging black people not let white authorities treat them with disrespect
  • Embodied the idea of being proud to be black
  • Against violence & believed that moderate action would bring success
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1973

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Biko was banned to is hometown, King Williams Town where he continued to work and helped set up a health centre

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August 1977

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Biko was detained as a roadblock set up for him on the outskirts of Grahamstown.

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September 1977

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26 days later Biko was dead (died from massive head injuries as a result of police cruelty) and died as a martyr

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SASO

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  • Addressed problems facing black students
  • Aimed to develop black pride
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Result of Bantu Education

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Black school children received an education that was inferior to that received by other racial groups

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Black schools

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  • Did not have proper equipment
  • Teachers were inadequately trained
  • Classes were overcrowded
  • Mathematics and science were not emphasised
  • Government spent 15x more on white education than on black education
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By 1976

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System of Bantu Education: created generation of bitter and angry young people

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1975

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Department of Bantu Education decided to enforce a policy that half of subjects in black schools should be taught in Afrikaans

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Soweto Uprising

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16 June 1976.
- About 15000 students marched towards Orlando Stadium to protest against the new law.
- About 300 policemen were rushed to Soweto to break up crowd
- First teargas was used then live ammunition
- Police opened fire but this brutal response only enflamed the crowd (2 protestors killed immediately, students responded by throwing stones)

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For 3 days after the Soweto Uprising

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Students blocked the streets and stoned cars and burned government buildings

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