Transcript South Africa and Apartheid

South Africa and Apartheid
Apartheid
Definition:
 Policy of racial
segregation formerly
followed in South
Africa
 1948-1990
 4 groups of people
 White
 Bantu, or black
Africans
 Coloured, or people
of mixed descent
 Asians
Images of Apartheid
The Laws of Apartheid
Determined…
 Where people could live
(blacks were separated into
different “townships”)
 Jobs they could hold
 Education they could
receive
 Pass 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
Road Sign
What Does this Chart Show Us?
Events and Groups Against
Apartheid
Sharpeville Massacre
The ANC
 1960
 African National
 Peaceful
demonstration vs.
pass laws
 200 people shot
(most in the back)
 Turned the ANC to
violence (not
peaceful protest)
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.
1989-1994
 Brought the apartheid system
of racial segregation to an end
 Transition to majority rule
Steve Biko
F.W. DeKlerk
Nelson Mandela
Mandela & 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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