TERM 4 - Unit 3 Release of Nelson Mandela (p189-194) Flashcards
What was the long-term CONSEQUENCES for South Africa for resistance & repression (apartheid)?
** RAND devalued
** GOLD & diamond shares dropped
** SANCTIONS
** big companies LEFT SA
Why did sport & music teams no longer go to SA?
Boycots (cultural and sport)
What are SANCTIONS?
When countries refuse to trade with a country, because of political reasons
How did the SOWETO uprising affect the economy of SA?
** RAND devalued
** GOLD & diamond shares dropped
** SANCTIONS
** big companies LEFT SA
How did the SOWETO uprising affect the black education?
- Schools closed (learners had to repeat the year)
- thousands of black kids left the country
- Afrikaans was not enforced in schools, policy was
changed
How did the SOWETO uprising affect the international community?
- shocked
- they applied sanctions and refused to trade with SA
Who was Derrick Thema?
journalist (he reported and was an eye witness on 17 June 1976)
Why were whites and African policemen targets for the learners to stone?
- they were targets, because they symbolized the
government that had made the Apartheid laws
Explain why there was a change of mood of the learners according to Mkhabela
Their mood changed when they heard a boy was shot
Why did the learners burn down liquor stores?
symbols of depression
Name the Prime Minister who was forced to resign in 1987 when it was discovered that tax payer money was spent on propoganda?
John Voster
Who became the next Prime Minister after John Voster?
PW Botha
What strategy did PW Botha use to get support?
- he poured money into the homelands (neighbouring
countries) - dropped petty apartheid laws
- made Indians and Coloureds part of the
government
What union was formed to unite the smaller trade unions?
COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Union)
What was the EXTERNAL PRESSURE on the Apartheid in the 1980’s?
- Many countries STOPPED buying SA goods
- big companies LEFT (Pepsi, BP, Chevrolet)
- Some AIRLINES refused to fly to SA
- Some countries did now ALLOW South Africans to
visit them - PETROL supplies were limited, reduced top speed
to 90 km/h - Musicians/Sportsmen were blacklisted (names put
on a list, penalised) if they performed in SA - South Africans were expelled from OLYMPICS
