TERM 4 UNIT 1 - 1960 SHARPEVILLE massacre and Langa march

Question 1

Explain the concept of PAN

Answer 1

all Africa OR all African

Question 2

Explain the concept of MASSACRE

Answer 2

Killing of lots of people

Question 3

Explain the concept of EXILE

Answer 3

Staying out of a country because of political reasons

Question 4

Explain the concept of IMMIGRATION

Answer 4

Moving to another country

Question 5

Explain the concept of SABOTAGE ACTS

Answer 5

Deliberate destruction
(like blowing up of a power station)

Question 6

Explain the concept of SANCTIONS

Answer 6

Country refuse to trade with a specific country because of political reasons

Question 7

What does ANC stand for?

Answer 7

African National Congress

Question 8

What does PAC stand for?

Answer 8

Pan Africanist Congress

Question 9

What does NP stand for?

Answer 9

National Party

Question 10

What does MK stand for?

Answer 10

uMkhonto we Sizwe

Question 11

Name the 3 events which influenced SA politically between 1960 and 1990

Answer 11

1960 - Sharpeville massacre and Langa march
1967 - Soweto uprising
1990 - release of Nelson Mandela

Question 12

Why was the PAC formed on 6 April 1959?

Answer 12

Africanists decided to leave the ANC to form their own political party because :
- Africa is for black people only
- Black people’s interest should come first
- Don’t want to work with white people

Question 13

Who was the president of the PAC IN 1959?

Answer 13

Robert Sobukwe

Question 14

Explain 2 of Robert Sobukwe’s goals or aims

Answer 14

1) He wanted to rule SA
2) Did’nt want SA to be controled by whites

Question 15

ACTIVITY 4.2 (p180)
What sacrifice did Adam Malefane make to see the pass laws stopped?

Answer 15

Right leg was hit by stem gun bullets
He spent 3 years in hospital, was crippled

Question 16

ACTIVITY 4.2 (p180)
How do you know that the crowd was not expecting any danger or violence?

Answer 16

Unarmed women & children protested
Mood was happy
They thought they heard fire crackets, but it was the police firing

Question 17

ACTIVITY 4.2 (p180)
Why did the police send for reinforcements?

Answer 17

Police were afraid, because a policeman was killed by a mob near Durban a few weeks earlier

Question 18

ACTIVITY 4.2 (p180)
Why was the killing of 69 people unnecessary at the Sharpeville massacre?

Answer 18

Crowd surrounded the police station
Crowd was happy
Barbed-wire fence was trampled down
Police opened fire “shot people in the back” and “fired into the crowd”