Growth Of Apartheid 1955-1959

Question 1

Petty Apartheid

Answer 1

• Separate amenities
• Segregation of schools, hospitals and public transport
• Laws preventing interracial marriages from occurring
• Pass laws that limited the movement of black people

Question 2

Development under Verwoerd

Answer 2

• Most powerful and confident
• Belileved that he had a God-given mission to secure the future of Christian white South Africa
• Changed the idea from white supremacy ad the image of apartheid , solution was to offer the blacks the apparent chance to develop separately from the white population in separate areas
• Bantustans - Created 8 Bantu National Units based on a division of the reserves along tribal lines
• Looked for independence however were never recognised as independent states and were far too weak

Question 3

Bantu Self-Government Act - 1959

Answer 3

• Created 8 self-governing ‘homelands’ for different black ethnic groups and removed blacks from the national political system as they were their own ‘independent state’

Question 4

Support and weaknesses of Verwoerd

Answer 4

• Weakness - Refused to face the reality of SA’s economic and population growth, they needed a well-educated and well-trained workforce
• Support - Huge white support, he refused to apologise to the international stage and stood on his political ideas, kept blacks away from whites

Question 5

Development under Vorster

Answer 5

• Minister of Justice dating Rivonia Trial
• PM from 1966-78, during Soweto uprising