turning points in modern SA since 1948

Question 1

What is apartheid?

Answer 1

A system of racial segregation implemented in South Africa by a White minority government the National Party

Question 2

What were the main Apartheid laws?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What is meaning of the word defiance?

Answer 3

Open resistance, Bold disobedience

Question 4

What was the Bantu Education Act

Answer 4

African children recieved an inferior education which aimed at supplying South Africa with unskilled labour

Question 5

What is the meaning of the resistance?

Answer 5

opposition to somebody or something.

Question 6

What is the meaning of the Group Areas Act

Answer 6

Residential and business areas were set out for different races. This process involved forceful removals.

Question 7

What is democracy?

Answer 7

A form of government in which the people vote directly against or in favor of decisions, policies, laws, etc.

Question 8

What was the Passes Act ?

Answer 8

All African men and later women had to carry pass books within white urban areas

Question 9

What is the meaning of boycott?

Answer 9

To refuse to buy, use, or participate in (something) as a way of protesting.

Question 10

What is the separate Amenities Act?

Answer 10

All public Facilities and services were segregated based on race.

Question 11

In what year did the ANC form?

Answer 11

The year 1912

Question 12

What was the Bantu Self Government act?

Answer 12

A system of homelands for African people separated into ethnic groups

Question 13

In what year did the ANC Youth League form?

Answer 13

In the year 1944

Question 14

What does ANC stand for?

Answer 14

African National Congress

Question 15

What did the Population Registration Act do?

Answer 15

It classified all South Africans into four racial groups.

Question 16

In what year was the national party voted into power

Answer 16

In the year 1948

Question 17

what was the prohibition of marriages Act and immorality Act?

Answer 17

It made interracial marriages and sexual relationships forbidden and illegal

Question 18

In what year did the ANC Youth League introduce the programme of action the turning point

Answer 18

In the year 1949

Question 19

what was the Suppression of communism and terrorism act

Answer 19

Any person or organisations that opposed the NP was labelled a terrorist or communist and was banned, arrested ,tortured or detained without trial

Question 20

What was the freedom Charter of 1955

Answer 20

This system was designed to give all South Africans equal rights.

Question 21

What was the governments reaction to the Freedom Charter?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

In what year were women forced to carry passes as well?

Answer 22

In the year 1952

Question 23

Who were passes only imposed on?

Answer 23

African people

Question 24

What date did the women’s march take place?

Answer 24

9 August 1956

Question 25

What was the women’s march?

Answer 25

Where 20 000 women of all races marched to the union buildings protesting against carrying of passes.

Question 26

What was signed by all the women in the year 1956

Answer 26

A petition that was to be handed to the prime minister Strijdom

Question 27

Who were the faces of the women’s march

Answer 27

Sophie Williams, Helen Joseph, Lilian Ngoyi, and Rahima Moosa

Question 28

What was the failures of The Women’s March of 1956

Answer 28

The march was defeated, the Prime minister Strijdom never came out to receive the petition, and by 1960 over 4million women registered for passes .

Question 29

what was the defiance campaign?

Answer 29

challenge the government through direct and non violent confrontation

Question 30

what year had the defiance campaign began

Answer 30

in the year 1950