2. Defination of Apartheid
An arrangement of legitimate racial isolation authorized by the
National Party government in South Africa somewhere in the range
of 1948 and 1994, under which the privileges of the greater part
dark occupants of South Africa were reduced and minority run by
whites was kept up.
3. Timeline of Events
1970s: 300 000 000 people forced into the black
homelands (Bantustans)
1976: Student were protesting against the policy
of apartheid that segregated them. The policy of
apartheid affected their curriculum at school
since blacks were allowed to do Bantu
Educatuion.
1977: Steve Biko under (Black Consciousness) was
arrested and dies under police custody.
1994: South Africa attain it independence
(Democratic country)
1948: Policy of apartheid was
implemented by the National
Party when they won the
elections.
1950: Group Areas Act was
passed to segregate blacks and
whites.
1952: Blacks were required to
carry Pass books everywhere
they go under Pass Law Act of
1952.
1960: South Africa was banned
from the Olympics because of
the international pressure.
4. Founder of the Black Consciousness
Anti-Apartheid activist
Was influenced by Civil Rights Movement of the
United States of America in the 1960s
He wrote a book called ‘I write what I like’
He was expelled from school for his political views
He was ‘banned’ by the apartheid government
He died from injuries sustained in police custody
at the age of 30
6. NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF THE APARTHEID LAW IN THE SOCIETY
The apartheid policy instilled segregation in the country.
- The white race was considered to be the superior race of the country.
- Public facilities such as shops, toilets, parks and beaches where segregated amongst the diffrent races in South Africa.
White people recieved the best public facilities above all the other races.
-The Apartheid system was led by white Afrikaaners.
-This had tremendous effects on the country socially, politically, educationally and ecinomically.
-Afrikaans was made the first language in black schools and that forced black children to struggle learning a foreign language in school.
- Laws where passes that prohibited the circulation of black people in and out of the white surburbs and this forced them to carry a 'dompass'.
-The 'dompass' was an i.d-like document that entailed all neccessary details about the person who was carrying it.
These details entailed personal information such as addresses and birth dates.
-Laws where also passed to to classify the people of the country and also determine what race they belonged to. Such laws separated families
too.
-Black people could not apply for jobs other than, domestic work, gardern work, mine work and police work.
-Coloured and indian people where given better facilities than the black people, as they were considered better.
-Aparthied had a bad name for South Africa internationally as South African where rejected from participating in the olympics because of
aparthied.
- 16 June 1976 marked a world-known day as students in South Africa were protesting against learning in the Afrikaans language. Many childrem
where shot and killed taht day as they refused to evacuate when they were told to do so by the white Afikaner police men
