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Apartheid

The document summarizes apartheid in South Africa from its origins in 1948 as a system of racial segregation and white domination over blacks. It describes how apartheid forced blacks onto reserves, treated them as foreigners in their own country, and restricted their movement, wages, education and land ownership. The system began to break down in the 1960s as Nelson Mandela and the ANC led resistance campaigns, and finally ended with democratic elections in 1994 where the ANC won and Mandela became president, marking the end of apartheid.

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Apartheid

The document summarizes apartheid in South Africa from its origins in 1948 as a system of racial segregation and white domination over blacks. It describes how apartheid forced blacks onto reserves, treated them as foreigners in their own country, and restricted their movement, wages, education and land ownership. The system began to break down in the 1960s as Nelson Mandela and the ANC led resistance campaigns, and finally ended with democratic elections in 1994 where the ANC won and Mandela became president, marking the end of apartheid.

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The struggle for freedom in South

Africa was different than elsewhere.

• South Africa gained its


independence in 1910.
• In 1948, the existing
racial segregation was
expanded into the
system of apartheid.
What is Apartheid?

• Apartheid means separate in the


Afrikaans language.
-Afrikaans is a language derived from
Dutch.

• Policy of racial segregation in South


Africa (1948-1989 officially)

• Aim: maintain white domination and


police repression over blacks

• Apartheid forced blacks onto “reserves”


(have been compared to favelas of Brazil)
Under apartheid, a strict set of
laws existed.

• Black
Everyone • White
was registered
• Colored (mixed ancestry)
by race.
• Asian

• Needed permission to travel.


Blacks were
• Received low wages and inferior
treated like
schooling.
foreigners in their
own country. • Could not own land in most
areas.
Under
Apartheid
•Blacks lived
on reserves, or
homelands.
Shanty towns
like this
developed.
Most black men had to leave their
homeland to find work in mines or
factories. Passbooks were issued to
show what areas blacks could get into.

Women raised whatever crops they


could.
In 1961 Mandela became
leader of the ANC's armed
wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe ,
which he co-founded. He
coordinated sabotage
campaigns against military
and government targets,
making plans for a
possible guerrilla war if the
sabotage failed to end
apartheid. Mandela also raised
funds for MK abroad and
arranged for paramilitary
training of the group.
In 1994
• The Nationalist government
agreed to an open election
•The African National Congress
won. Mandela was elected
president.

In 1996, Nelson
Mandela
became the
new president
of South Africa.
For (+) or against (-) Name of group description
Apartheid

In 1994, Blacks were -- African National


Congress
Party of Nelson
Mandela

allowed to vote for South -- Inkatha Freedom


Party
Zulu political party;
clashes with ANC

Africa’s president. Can you


+ National Party Dutch party that
see the result at the polls? ruled 1948-94

+ Dutch Reform Party Thought Apartheid


was part of God’s
plan.

1994 South African Election ANC

National Party

Inkatha Freedom
Party
Freedom Front

Democratic Party

Pan-African
Congress
African Christian
Democratic

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