Segregation & Discrimination on the

grounds of race!System enforced by law in South Africa 1948-1994

Separation by Race

In 1948- Afrikaners political party- (Dutch) National Party won

the elections & established Apartheid!

Pass laws making it legal to discriminate against blacks.

Separates Africans into four groups: Blacks, whites, coloreds (mixed and Asians)

Must carry a pass book- and show passbook when entering a non- black areas

Whites Only

Non- White Train Station

Black Africans & Lack of Freedoms

Blacks had practically no rights; could not vote; denied citizenships

It was illegal for black Africans to protest or meet/ organize

Africans were forbidden to go to white beaches, white restaurants, ride on white busses.

The National Party pushed for Afrikaans language (Dutch) in all schools instead of traditional African languages.

Best land had been taken by the Dutch & other White settlers early in S. African history.

Blacks were now forces into homelands; on the worst land in the country.

Homelands/SlumsHomelands/ townships were the worst land, designated

for black South Africans.

Legal Segregation in Education

No Black African Equality to Europeans

Nelson Mandela

Steven Biko

ArchbishopDesmond Tutu

Nobel Prize for struggle against Apartheid.

Leading anti- apartheid party, now majority party in South African

government.

Sharpeville uprising & protests, S. African police

killed over 60 during peaceful student protest.

Protests & Media coverage help to bring awareness!

World Awareness …sanctions & boycotts!

Nelson Mandela & President de

KlerkIn 1990 President Frederik Willem de

Klerk began negotiations to end

apartheid, culminating in multi-

racial democratic elections in 1994,

which were won by the African National

Congress under Nelson Mandela.

Racial ReconciliationNelson’s Mandela and other ANC leaders plan for reconciliation of

Whites and Blacks once apartheid was over!

Vocabulary Terms Afrikaners- Afrikaans speaking decedents of the early

Dutch settlers who arrived in South Africa beginning in 1652.

Afrikaans- The language of the minority white population of South Africa and one of the two official languages during the Nationalist Party Unity.

Boers- Afrikaans word meaning farmers, these were the first white settlers from Holland who arrived in South Africa in 1652.

Bantu- identifies a particular group of people coming from Central and South Africa. The Nationalist government used this term in a derogatory way to identify Black Africans.

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