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: [] [] []

Apartheid means apartness, in Afrikaans. The people were organized into white, black, colored, and Asian in South Africa. [] South Africans speek one of the many bantu languages,and english, are deceded from the dutch,Zulu,Xhosa,Northern and Southern Sotho,Tswana,Shangana-Tsongo,Swazi,Dutch,French,German,British,Indian,and Chinese.The ethnic groups are, whites 13.6%, blacks,75.2%,coloreds 8.6%, asians 2.6% as of 1998.
 * 1) What does the word "apartheid" mean? In what language?
 * 1) In South Africa, how are people organized according to race?
 * 1) 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?

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 * 1) When did apartheid become an official government policy in South Africa? apartheid became an official African thing in 1948
 * 2) What was the purpose of Apartheid? Apartheid was ment to separate the races and to make sure whites had more rights
 * 3) What did the government do at the outset in order to reach that goal? the government made a lot of laws to stop the blacks from having that many rights
 * 4) Explain the policy of "separate development" in your own words.

Separate development was when the southern African government made the blacks live out side of cities and let the white people live in the cities and the blacks were not able to vote or own land in the cities

township, a small town passbook, identity to be carried by blacks labor permit, the black people had to get work permits to work in the city curfew regulations, where the blacks were not allowed out of their home after a certain hour preventive detention, puting people in jail without a trial
 * 1) Give definitions of the following key terms:homeland/Bantustan, sub-countries in South Africa for blacks durring apartheid


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

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1.
 * Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act**
 * no whites can marry people of a different races﻿**

2.
 * Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes)**
 * blacks could not hold strikes legaly any more﻿**