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Segregation & Discrimination on the
grounds of race!System enforced by law in South Africa 1948-1994
Separation by Race
In 1948- Afrikaners political party- (Dutch) National Party won
the elections & established Apartheid!
Pass laws making it legal to discriminate against blacks.
Separates Africans into four groups: Blacks, whites, coloreds (mixed and Asians)
Must carry a pass book- and show passbook when entering a non- black areas
Whites Only
Non- White Train Station
Black Africans & Lack of Freedoms
Blacks had practically no rights; could not vote; denied citizenships
It was illegal for black Africans to protest or meet/ organize
Africans were forbidden to go to white beaches, white restaurants, ride on white busses.
The National Party pushed for Afrikaans language (Dutch) in all schools instead of traditional African languages.
Best land had been taken by the Dutch & other White settlers early in S. African history.
Blacks were now forces into homelands; on the worst land in the country.
Homelands/SlumsHomelands/ townships were the worst land, designated
for black South Africans.
Legal Segregation in Education
No Black African Equality to Europeans
Nelson Mandela
Steven Biko
ArchbishopDesmond Tutu
Nobel Prize for struggle against Apartheid.
Leading anti- apartheid party, now majority party in South African
government.
Sharpeville uprising & protests, S. African police
killed over 60 during peaceful student protest.
Protests & Media coverage help to bring awareness!
World Awareness …sanctions & boycotts!
Nelson Mandela & President de
KlerkIn 1990 President Frederik Willem de
Klerk began negotiations to end
apartheid, culminating in multi-
racial democratic elections in 1994,
which were won by the African National
Congress under Nelson Mandela.
Racial ReconciliationNelson’s Mandela and other ANC leaders plan for reconciliation of
Whites and Blacks once apartheid was over!
Vocabulary Terms Afrikaners- Afrikaans speaking decedents of the early
Dutch settlers who arrived in South Africa beginning in 1652.
Afrikaans- The language of the minority white population of South Africa and one of the two official languages during the Nationalist Party Unity.
Boers- Afrikaans word meaning farmers, these were the first white settlers from Holland who arrived in South Africa in 1652.
Bantu- identifies a particular group of people coming from Central and South Africa. The Nationalist government used this term in a derogatory way to identify Black Africans.
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