turning points in modern SA since 1948 Flashcards
What is apartheid?
A system of racial segregation implemented in South Africa by a White minority government the National Party
What were the main Apartheid laws?
Population Registration Act , Group Areas act, Separate amenities Act, Bantu Education Act, Passes Act, Suppression of Communism and terrorism Act, Prohibition of mixed marriages Act and immorality Act
What is meaning of the word defiance?
Open resistance, Bold disobedience
What was the Bantu Education Act
African children recieved an inferior education which aimed at supplying South Africa with unskilled labour
What is the meaning of the resistance?
opposition to somebody or something.
What is the meaning of the Group Areas Act
Residential and business areas were set out for different races. This process involved forceful removals.
What is democracy?
A form of government in which the people vote directly against or in favor of decisions, policies, laws, etc.
What was the Passes Act ?
All African men and later women had to carry pass books within white urban areas
What is the meaning of boycott?
To refuse to buy, use, or participate in (something) as a way of protesting.
What is the separate Amenities Act?
All public Facilities and services were segregated based on race.
In what year did the ANC form?
The year 1912
What was the Bantu Self Government act?
A system of homelands for African people separated into ethnic groups
In what year did the ANC Youth League form?
In the year 1944
What does ANC stand for?
African National Congress
What did the Population Registration Act do?
It classified all South Africans into four racial groups.
In what year was the national party voted into power
In the year 1948
what was the prohibition of marriages Act and immorality Act?
It made interracial marriages and sexual relationships forbidden and illegal
In what year did the ANC Youth League introduce the programme of action the turning point
In the year 1949
what was the Suppression of communism and terrorism act
Any person or organisations that opposed the NP was labelled a terrorist or communist and was banned, arrested ,tortured or detained without trial
What was the freedom Charter of 1955
This system was designed to give all South Africans equal rights.
What was the governments reaction to the Freedom Charter?
They believed that the Freedom charter commited treason and in 1956 156 activists were arrested, a four year trial followed where people were found not guilty and still were acquitted with high treason
In what year were women forced to carry passes as well?
In the year 1952
Who were passes only imposed on?
African people
What date did the women’s march take place?
9 August 1956
What was the women’s march?
Where 20 000 women of all races marched to the union buildings protesting against carrying of passes.
What was signed by all the women in the year 1956
A petition that was to be handed to the prime minister Strijdom
Who were the faces of the women’s march
Sophie Williams, Helen Joseph, Lilian Ngoyi, and Rahima Moosa
What was the failures of The Women’s March of 1956
The march was defeated, the Prime minister Strijdom never came out to receive the petition, and by 1960 over 4million women registered for passes .
what was the defiance campaign?
challenge the government through direct and non violent confrontation
what year had the defiance campaign began
in the year 1950
