Understanding the History of South Africa

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Understanding the History of South Africa
Apartheid
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South Africa

• Twice the size of Texas

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Apartheid

• Apartheid Separateness
• The separation of races

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Rural vs. Urban

• Group Acts of 1950
• 1.5 Million Africans were forced from urban areas
  to rural reservations

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Homelands

• Reservations or Bantustans
• Verwoerd established 9 African groups
• Each was to become a nation within its own
  homeland
• Africans had rights and freedoms
• Outside the homelands, treated as aliens
• Poor quality land with erosion
• Completely incapable of supporting large
  populations

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Houses in Soweto, a black township.
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Apartheid No Rights for Non-whites

• No right to vote
• No ownership of land
• No right to move freely
• No right to free speech
• No right to protest the government

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Images of Apartheid
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Images of Apartheid
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Apartheid separated the whites from the
non-whites
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The Pass Book

• Needed special permits to live outside of
  reservations, but not with family
• Lived in Townships (the citys perimeter)
• Curfew regulations
• Passbook raids
• Failure to meet curfew or have passbook subject
  to arrest

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Resistance and Protests

• Apartheid is Challenged

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Nelson Mandela

• Nelson Mandela peacefully fought to end
  apartheid. He served 27 years in prison for such
  treason.
• Thousands of other South African non-whites were
  imprisoned and executed for their resistance
  against apartheid.

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1994

• Reservations abolished and territories reabsorbed
  into the nation of South Africa
• First multiracial election
• Nelson Mandela elected president of South Africa
  (1994 1999)

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South Africa Today

• 1994 The end of Apartheid
• Todays president Jacob Zuma
• Presidents serve 5 year term

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African National Congress

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vY9WB5nOnHIY