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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?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/12chapter7.shtml
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.
When did apartheid become an official government policy in South Africa? apartheid became an official African thing in 1948
What was the purpose of Apartheid? Apartheid was ment to separate the races and to make sure whites had more rights
Explain the policy of "separate development" in your own words.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-aparthei.html
GiveSeparate 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
Give definitions of following key terms:homeland/Bantustan
township
passbook
laborterms:homeland/Bantustan, sub-countries in South Africa for blacks durring apartheid
township, a small town
passbook, identity to be carried by blacks
labor permit
curfew regulations, 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 detentiondetention, puting people in jail without a trial
Choose two laws (from the site below) that were created under apartheid and explain them in your own words.
http://africanhistory.about.com/library/bl/blsalaws.htm
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

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:
http://library.thinkquest.org/18799/time33.html
http://africanhistory.about.com/library/bl/blSAApartheidFAQ.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index_section12.shtml
What does the word "apartheid" mean? In what language?
Apartheid means apartness, in Afrikaans.
In South Africa, how are people organized according to race?
The people were organized into white, black, colored, and Asian in South Africa.
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?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/12chapter7.shtml
When did apartheid become an official government policy in South Africa? apartheid became an official African thing in 1948
What was the purpose of Apartheid? Apartheid was ment to separate the races and to make sure whites had more rights
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
Explain the policy of "separate development" in your own words.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-aparthei.html
Give definitions of the following key terms:homeland/Bantustan
township
passbook
labor permit
curfew regulations
preventive detention
Choose two laws (from the site below) that were created under apartheid and explain them in your own words.
http://africanhistory.about.com/library/bl/blsalaws.htm
1.
2.