South Africa and Apartheid

Apartheid

Definition: Images of ApartheidPolicy of racial

segregation formerly followed in South Africa

1948-19904 groups of people

WhiteBantu, or black

AfricansColoured, or people

of mixed descentAsians

The Laws of Apartheid Determined…

Road SignWhere people could live

(blacks were separated into different “townships”)

Jobs they could holdEducation they could

receivePass laws: All blacks had to

carry pass books that were used to control their employment and free movement

Laws authorized segregated public facilities

Denied any representation of nonwhites in the national government

What Does this Chart Show Us?

Events and Groups Against Apartheid

Sharpeville Massacre The ANC

1960Peaceful

demonstration vs. pass laws

200 people shot (most in the back)

Turned the ANC to violence (not peaceful protest)

African National Congress

S.A.’s main black political organization

Banned until 1990, the primary goal through the years has been the end of the apartheid system and the establishment of a democratic, nonracial South Africa.

Aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre

Important People Involved in Ending Apartheid

Steve Biko:Leader of the Black

Consciousness Movement: sought to unite all non-white people socially, politically, and culturally and create a sphere in which whites had no influence

F.W. DeKlerk:Last white President of S.A.

1989-1994Brought the apartheid system

of racial segregation to an endTransition to majority rule

F.W. DeKlerk

Steve Biko

Nelson MandelaMandela & DeKlerk Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993

Imprisoned for 27 years for going against the white government (Sentenced to life)

Led S.A. from apartheid to democracy

S.A. president from 1994-1999

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