Apartheid By Talen Sehgal

Beginnings• 1913 Land Act– Reserves– Sharecroppers

Growth

• 1948 Afrikaner Party won election• Used Slogan “Apartheid” • Strengthened Racial Segregation

Structure

• Population Registration Act of 1950– Separated People based on Color • White• Colored• Bantu

Rights

• Bantu people lost rights, homes, jobs• Deemed “unequal”• No longer allowed in Government

Effects

• Bantu people lost jobs• Treated as less than human• Ripple effect

Opposition

• Formation of the African Nation Congress• Led by Nelson Mandela– Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation)

Opposition

• Nelson Mandela arrested in 1963-1990• Drew international support for the Anti-

Apartheid cause

Apartheid Ends

• United Nations denounces Apartheid in 1973• USA and UK imposed economic sanctions in

1985• 1994 Elections held marking end of Apartheid

Master Harold…and the boys

• Time setting was 1950s• Willie and Sam were both Black Males• Harold was White• Not seen as equals• Man of Magnitude