Apartheid was a system of racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa between 1948 and 1994. It was created by the National Party government to maintain political and economic power for the white minority population of European descent. Some key apartheid laws included the Population Registration Act of 1950, which classified all South Africans by race; the Group Areas Act of 1950, which enforced racial segregation in residential areas; and the Bantu Education Act of 1953, which provided an inferior education to black South Africans. The apartheid system aimed to separate the races and deprive the black majority of political and civil rights through a system of legalized racial discrimination and segregation.

1. Apartheid: South
Africa 1940s to 1960s
WHITE POLITICAL CONTROL AND ANTI- COMMUNISM

2. Video
 https://youtu.be/S7yvnUz2PLE

3. Questions based on the video
 What did you learn from the video?
 What is Segregation?
 What was the situations at the homelands?
 How was it?
 What do you think Apartheid is?

4. What is Apartheid?
 System of racial segregation in South Africa.
 Lasted from 1948-1994
 Created to keep economical and political power with people of
English descent/heritage
 Implementation and maintenance of a system of legalized racial
segregation in which on racial group is deprived of political and civil
rights.

5. Apartheid Laws

7. Two questions to discuss
1. why were the laws created?
2. What are some of these laws?

8. White political control and Anti-
communism

9. The cape
 Coloured males could vote
 1936- Africans lost voting rights
 1956- coloured lost voting rights
 Only whites voted

10. 11. Bantu labour settlement of
disputes act (1953)
 Against miners
 Formed because 1946 mine workers resisted employer’s policies
 1950s African workers had a stay away against apartheid laws
 Blacks were refused trade unions, African unions were excluded from
negotiations.
 SACTU ( South African congress of trade unions)
 Supported freedom charter
 Fought racism, exploitation at work
 Worker had no rights and leaders detained.

11. 10. Separate universities Act (1959)
 Separate universities
 Uct, Natal, wits were forced to accept only whites
For blacks
 UniZulu- Zulus
 UWC – coloureds
 Durban, Westville- Indians
 Univ. of North – sotho

12. 9. Land Act (1913)
 Divide and rule
 Blacks forced to homelands, African tribes
 Overcrowded, poor, led to migrant labour
Migrant labour
 Aim of homelands – to separate blacks because the colonizers knew that it
would be easier to conquer and were there to rid south Africa of its
citizens.
 Provide cheap labour for mines, industries, white farms in SA.

13. LAWS CONTI..
8. Prohibition of mixed marriages act (1949) and the immorality act (1950)
 Forbid marriages, sexual relations between blacks and whites.
7. Group areas act (1950)
 Special areas for certain races, for example: business areas, residentials. Forced
removals, e.g. District 6, sophiatown
6. Population registration act (1950)
 Required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered in
accordance with their racial characteristics as part of the apartheid system
5. Bantu Self Government act (1959)
 Home lands/ Bantustans for Africans
 Make blacks believe they are independent
4. Bantu education Act (1953)
 Blacks received inferior education
 Churches refused Bantu education and were closed

14. The laws Determined :
 Who had power to vote, where people lived, worked, and attended
education/school.
 The laws were supported by Dutch reformed church, Afrikaners “god given
Mission to preserve purity of whites”

15. Legalising apartheid
Main apartheid laws
1. separate amenities Act (1953)
Whites used best facilities, parks, toilets etc. no multiracial ; sports, hotels
2. Suppression of communism act and the terrorism act (1950)
Banned political parties against N.P, people were arrested, detained, tortured
without trial
3. Passes Act
Carry pass books with Name, race, employer, where you work, address.
To control movement of African people. Rural and urban areas.

16. Analysing a Cartoon

17. Questions based on the cartoon
1. what do you see in the cartoon?
2. What message is the cartoonist trying to portray?
 What law or Act is the cartoon based on ?

18. Homework
1. Define the following terms:
A) Apartheid (2)
B) Segregation (2)
C) Racism (2)
2. What was the aim of the apartheid laws? (2)
3. Name 5 laws that had the most effect during apartheid error. (5)
4. Name 5 laws which you believe had least effect in SA during Apartheid error. (5)
5. Do you believe S. Africans are fully free from these laws? (2)
Provide reason for your answer. (2)
Full Marks [20]