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Apartheid overview

What was apartheid? 

"Apartheid 46 Years in 90 Seconds." YouTube, uploaded by BBC News, 6 Dec. 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=2f2k6iDFCL4. Accessed 15 Jan. 2019.

Background information:

Today's agenda

Students will be in small groups

  • Select a topic to investigate and use the topic page on this libguide for your investigation
  • Consider the essential questions posed for each topic.
  • Divide and conquer the resources on your topic page so that between you all of the resources have been considered.
  • Activate your HOA brains: what similarities do you notice between Civil Rights Movement in the United States and Apartheid in South Africa?
  • Each group will have 3 minutes to present the information you found most interesting and important about your topic.
  • Using the slide deck for your class include the most important information on your topic slide
  • Practice the timing of your presentation: everyone is required to speak.

Slide decks:
Apartheid Organizer for notes

Apartheid Timeline of events

  • 1910 Formation of Union of South Africa
  • 1912 Formation of South African Native National Congress (SANNC); later becomes the ANC
  • 1914-1915 National Party (NP) founded
  • 1948 NP elected to power under D. F. Malan
  • 1949 Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act
  • 1950
    • The Immorality Act
    • Population Restriction Act
    • Group Areas Act
    • Suppression of Communism Act
  • 1951
    • Separate Registration of Voters Act
    • Bantu Authorities Act
    • Bantu Education introduced
  • 1952
    • The Native Laws Amendment Act
    • Pass Laws Act
    • ANC launches defiance campaign
  • 1953
    • Reservation of Separate Amenities Act
    • Bantu Education Act
  • 1955
    • The government begins its policies of forced removals
    • The ANC together with the Natal Indian Congress, and other groups interested in denouncing segregation draft the Freedom Charter 
      • Freedom Charter affirmed a commitment to nonracial democracy, equal opportunity for all people, and some redistribution of wealth.
  • 1959
    • Extension of University Education Act
    • Promotion of Bantu Self Government Act
  • 1960 Sharpeville Massacre; formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
  • 1964 Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, and seven other ANC activists sentenced to life imprisonment
  • 1966 H.F. Verwoerd assassinated; J.B. Vorster made Prime Minister
  • 1976 Soweto uprisings
  • 1977 Death of Stephen Biko
  • 1978 P.W. Botha elected prime minister
  • 1984-1986 Botha becomes president; uprisings in townships and State of Emergency
  • 1986 Repeal of pass laws
  • 1987 250,000 African mine-workers go on 3 week strike
  • 1989 F. W. deKlerk elected president
  • 1990
    • February: Nelson Mandela released
    • August: ANC formally suspends armed struggle
  • 1991
    • April: Repeal of Land Acts, Group Areas Act, Population Registration Act & Separate Amenities Act
    • September: National Peace Accord
    • December: Formation of Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
  • 1994
    • April: First free and democratic election in South Africa
    • Nelson Mandela elected president
  • 1996
    • Hearings of Truth and Reconciliation Commission begin
    • South African constitution signed into law

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