Apartheid

Apartheid WebQuest Apartheid to Dutch Afrikaners means “apartness”. In order to gain some background knowledge before we read an excerpt from __A Long walk to Freedom__ by Nelson Mandela, please take notes on the following questions. Print/type directly onto the sheet and print it out. Unless otherwise noted, explore these links: [] [] []

1. What does the word "apartheid" mean? In what language? Apartheid- Means apartness in Afrikaans.

2. In South Africa, how are people organized according to race? In South Africa at the time the people were organized from 75% was black, 13% were white, 9% coloured, and 3% were Asian.

3. What countries are South Africans’ ancestors from (i.e. what ethnic groups are there)? How large are these ethnic groups? And which languages do they speak? [] Some of the ethnic groups that I had read about were Africans, Europeans, and Chinese. Africans spoke Afrikaner, the Europeans spoke some of the different languages spoke in their country, and Chinese spoke Chinese.

4. When did apartheid become an official government policy in South Africa? It became an official government policy in 1984. 5. What was the purpose of Apartheid? The purpose of Apartheid was the separation of all races, not just whites from nonwhites, but from separation of everybody in different races. 6. What did the government do at the outset in order to reach that goal? He wanted the nine African groups to unite as one homeland and one nation. 7. Explain the policy of "separate development" in your own words. [] I was to reserve within the confines of the African’s designated homeland rights and freedoms, but it was like the outside of blacks being treated as aliens.

8. Give definitions of the following key terms:homeland/Bantustan township- A division of a country with some corporate powers. passbook- A booklet issued by a bank to an account holder for recording sums deposited and with drawn. labor permit- Labor and human relations’ requirements will not allow a work permit to be issued without one of the following. curfew regulation- to regulate conduct at a certain time. preventive detention- Is an imprisonment that is not imposed as the punishment for a crime.

9. Choose two laws (from the site below) that were created under apartheid and explain them in your own words.

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1.Suppresion of communism is the community of South Africa and it is outlawed communism. 2.Separate representation of voters act together with the 1956 amendment.