TERM 3 Unit 3 - National Party and Apartheid (p 158 - 163)

Question 1

Explain how black people were affected by the fact that they could not have trade unions

Answer 1

Workers had no-one to negotiate :
wages and
working conditions

Question 2

Explain how black people were affected by the ‘Land Act of 1913’

Answer 2

This Act took away their right to own land and farm

Question 3

Explain how black people were affected by the ‘Colour Bar Act of 1926’

Answer 3

This Act did not allow black people to ger certificates for skilled work

Question 4

Show a timeline of how blacks were affected in a discriminated way

Answer 4

1910 - No say in the
1913 - ‘Land Act of 1913’ took their right to own land
and farm
1924 - Skilled work only for whites
1926 - Blacks could not get certificates for skilled
work
1936 - Blacks could not vote

Question 5

Group Areas Act: Sophiastown

Explain the importance of Sophiatown

Answer 5

1) Was a MULTI-RACIAL suburb in JHB, established
in 1904
2) Africans were able to BUY LAND before 1923
3) The DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH removed the
Whites
4) The only area with a SWIMMING pool for Blacks
5) JAZZ & PENNY WHISTLES - music culture
6) GROUP AREAS ACT said each race has to live in
separate areas, the residents refused to move
7) Did not want to loose their customer base
(shebeens & fruit-selling businesses)
8) 9 FEB 1955 - police removed them

Africans went to SOWETO
Coloureds went to ELDORADO PARK
Indians went to LENASIA
Chinese to central JHB

Question 6

What was the main motive behind the APARTHEID LAW?

Answer 6

To protect white people (from mixing with black people and competing socially, economically and politically)

Question 7

Describe the RESULT of apartheid laws

Answer 7

Black people suffered due to discrimination, it kept them in poverty