Topic 1 - response to Apartheid

Question 1

how many seats did the National Party win in the 1948 elections vs the United Party

Answer 1

79 seats over the United Party’s 71

Question 2

When was the Broederbond set up

Answer 2

1918

Question 3

What is Swart Gevaar and how did it help the NP win the elections

Answer 3

swart Gevaar - black danger - many Afrikaners felt that the united party did not enforce segregation enough and the NP ensured that the ‘black threat would be prevented

Question 4

what occured to African wages during WWII under Smuts?

Answer 4

They rose from 1/5 of white wages to 1/4

Question 5

when did Hendrik Verwoerd become Minister of Native Affairs?

Answer 5

1950

Question 6

when was the population Registration Act and What did it do?

Answer 6

1950 - assigned South Africans 1 of 4 racial categories

Question 7

when was the Immorality Act

Answer 7

1950

Question 8

when was the Group Areas Act and what did it do

Answer 8

1950 - allowed the government to assign areas to a certain race group

Question 9

when was the Suppression of Communism Act

Answer 9

1950

Question 10

when was the abolition of Passes Act

Answer 10

1952

Question 11

how many residents did Sophiatown have before the Group Areas Act

Answer 11

60,000

Question 12

which area was the ‘we won’t move’ protest in 1955 after the Group Areas Act was implemented

Answer 12

Sophiatown

Question 13

how many residents were forcibly removed in District Six in 1966?

Answer 13

600,000

Question 14

When was the Bantu Education Act and who did it put african education under the control of?

Answer 14

1953 - the control of Native Affairs

Question 15

how many african children attended school in 1948

Answer 15

less than 33%

Question 16

how many black south africans were literate in 1948?

Answer 16

25%

Question 17

when was the Tomlinson Report and how much did he suggest was funded to Bantustans?

Answer 17

1955 - £100 million

Question 18

when was the ANC founded and when did ideas grow of Civil Disobedience?

Answer 18

founded in 1912 but ideas gew in the 1940s for civil disobedience

Question 19

when was the ANC Youth League formed and by who?

Answer 19

1944 - formed by Walter Sisulu

Question 20

when was the defiance campaign

Answer 20

1952

Question 21

how many arrests were made in the Eastern Cape during the Defiance campaign

Answer 21

8,000

Question 22

when was the Potato Boycott

Answer 22

1957-1959

Question 23

when was the freedom Charter

Answer 23

1955

Question 24

how many Congress leaders were arrested during the Treason Trial

Answer 24

156

Question 25

when was the PAC formed

Answer 25

1959

Question 26

who founded the PAC and was the first leader

Answer 26

Robert Sobukwe

Question 27

when was the liberal party formed

Answer 27

1953

Question 28

when was the ANC’s Youth League’s programme of Action

Answer 28

1949

Question 29

1948 Urban areas population

Answer 29

20% Africans 75% Whites

Question 30

what acts were passed in 1950

Answer 30

Group Areas Act
Immorality Act
Prohibition of Mixed Marriage Act
Suppression of Communism Act

Question 31

1952 change in ANC

Answer 31

Moderate president Xuma replaced with Luthuli

Question 32

how many arrests in the Eastern Cape as a result of the 1952 Defiance Campaign

Answer 32

8,000

Question 33

Whilst in place, how many Africans were evicted as a result of the Group Areas Act

Answer 33

3.5 million

Question 34

Change in Education

Answer 34

1953 Bantu Education Act and Extension of University Act

Question 35

Treason Trial - when and details

Answer 35

1956 - 156 congress leaders arrested

Question 36

Sophiatown

Answer 36

1956, 60,000 residents forcible removed

Question 37

womens protest 1957

Answer 37

mass pass protest in Johannesburg

Question 38

1957 violence around the Bantu-Authorities Act

Answer 38

9 officials beaten to death in Bantustans, over 100 arrested