total strategy and total onslaught Flashcards
total strategy
the apartheid government’s response to the perceived threat of ‘total onslaught’
total onslaught
threat posed to SA by the USSR
blamed revolutionary forces within SA for supporting and fuelling this threat
total strategy justifications
win western support
justify repression of blacks
State Security Council
set up in 1882 - it became almost like a parallel government
army
Botha greatly increased the size - since 1972 he introduced conscription
children and army
200,000 children went on army camps
SADF
SA defence force in 1981 numbered over 250,000 with 250,000 in reserve
by 1980
SA was the last white government in southern africa
Mozambique became independent in 1976 and Zimbabwe in 1980
police state
introduced, but despite this, violence and opposition was increasing
hostile neighbours
wanted to support ANC and were bases for the guerrillas
sanctions
businesses withdrawing, almost total sporting boycott and rugby tour cancelled
black population
was growing and now outnumbered the whites 1:8
soweto
showed repression wasn’t enough
1984
National Union of Mineworkers
wanted pay rise and legally striked
influx control
hadn’t prevented almost 1/2 blacks living in the cities
