Repurposed slides for Teaching studies 3B

1. APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA
1940-1960
Repurposed slides presented by Ameena Moolla

2. LESSON OUTCOMES:
° LEARNERS SHOULD BE ABLE TO DEFINE APARTHEID
° LEARNERS SHOULD BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN THE
IMPACT OF APARTHEID
° NAME AND EXPLAIN THE IMPACT AND
SIGNIFICANCE OF EACH ACT
° CLEARLY INDICATE EVERY COMMUNITY AFFECTED
BY APARTHEID LEGISLATIONS

3. GLOSSARY

4. WHAT IS APARTHEID?
APARTHEID WAS A SYSTEM PUT IN PLACE BY THE
AFRIKANER NATIONAL PARTY IN 1948 WHICH
ALLOWED FOR LAWFUL SEGREGATION RACIAL DIVIDES.
• THE POLICY GOVERNS SOUTH AFRICA FOR NEARLY 50
YEARS BUT RACIAL SEGREGATION EXISTED A LONG
BEFORE APARTHEID BEGAN.
• MORE THAN 3 DECADES LATER THE PRACTICE OF
SYSTEMATIC RACIAL SEGREGATION WAS GIVEN THE
NAME APARTHEID AND IT WAS EXTENDED UNDER
THE GOVERNMENT LED BY NATIONAL PARTY.
• THE PARTY’S GOAL WAS TO SEPARATE WHITE
MINORITY FROM IT NON-MAJORITY.

5. SEGREGATION POLICIES WERE TURNED INTO
LEGALISING APARTHEID
Segregation policies were turned into
Legalising apartheid

6. SOCIAL APARTHEID
• THESE LAWS AFFECTED THE SOCIAL COHESION WITHIN SA DUE TO ENFORCED SEGREGATION. COMMUNITIES WERE DESTROYED AND FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND
ASSOCIATION WERE CURTAILED. THE GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTED TO ‘PROTECT’ WHITE COMMUNITIES FROM OTHER RACES
PROHIBITION OF MIXED MARRIAGE ACT 1949
- MARRIAGES BETWEEN WHITES AND OTHER RACES WERE PROHIBITED AND HAD TO ARRANGED OUTSIDE SA, WHERE THEY WERE HARASSED
IMMORALITY AMENDMENT ACT 1950
- SEXUAL INTERCOURSE BETWEEN WHITE AND OTHER RACES WERE OUTLAWED, IT WAS DIFFICULT TO INFORCE THE STATE GOT INVOLVED WHICH LED TO POLICE HARASSMENT .
Population Registration Act 1950
- South Africans would be categorised by their population group in the central population register, many families suffered heartbreak and confusion
as siblings were categorised in different ethnic groups
Reservation of separate animities act 1953
-All racial groups had separate public facilities based on discrimination which led to feelings of inferiority

8. THE GOVERNMENT USEDLEGISLATIONTOENSURE THAT RACIAL GROUPSLIVED INSEGREGATED COMMUNITIES.CERTAIN
RESIDENTIAL AREAS WERE RESERVED FOR CERTAINGROUPS.BLACKS,COLOURED AND INDIANS WERE FORCIBLYREMOVED TO
‘NEW’ TOWNSHIPS ORAREAS DESIGNATED FORTHEIRRACIAL GROUP.
GROUPAREAS ACT 1950
° SPECIFICRESIDENTIAL AREAS WERE DESIGNED FOR DIFFERENT RACES
NATIVE RESETTLEMENT ACT 1954
° PEOPLEINOVERCROWDED AREAS WERE FORCED TORELOCATE AND BUSINESSWERE TAKEN
NATIVE AMENDMENT ACT 1955
°ONLY 5 BLACKPEOPLE COULDLIVEINTHECITIES
Residential APARTHEID

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CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL
APARTHEID
• BANTU EDUCATION ACT 1953
• SUBJECTS PREPARE BLACK PEOPLE FOR MANUAL LABOR MAKING THEM FEEL INFERIOR
• EXTENTION UNIVERSITY ACT 1959
• NOT ONLY WAS THERE WHITE AND BLACK DIVISION IN UNIVERSITIES BUT ALSO DIVISION WITHIN
GROUPS

10. POLITICAL APARTHEID
• HEN TIC LAND AMENDMENT ACT 1948
• INDIAS WOULD NOT BE REGARDED AS SOUTH AFRICAN CITIZENS NOMATTER HOW LONGTHEY RESIDED IN THE
COUNTRY
• APPELLATE DIVISION QUORUM ACT 1955
• IT INCREASED THENUMBER OFAPPELLATE JUDGESFROM 5TO 11.THIS SHOWSA BREACH OFTHEPRINCIPLE OF
SEPARATION OF POWERS.
SENATE ACT 1955
ENSURED THAT THENPWOULD GETATWO-THIRDS MAJORITY DECISION WHEN IMPLEMENTING POLICIES
SAAMENDMENT ACT1956•
DUETOTHE SAGOVERNMENT’S MANIPULATION OF THE SIZEOF THE SENATE AND THE APPELLATE .DIVISION, COLOUREDS
WERE REMOVED AND PLACED ON A SEPARATE VOTERS’ ROLL.THIS LAW WAS SUPPORTED WITH A CLEAR TWO-THIRDS
MAJORITY.

11. Suppression of Communism Act1950
The Communist Party was banned and the GovernorGeneral could ban any other organization
that promoted the aims of communism.
Native (BanLabour Act (Settlement of Disputes Act)1953
No black trade unions could exist. Blacks could not join
existing trade unions and striking by black workers was forbidden.
Industrial ConciliatConciliationsAct1956
‘Mixed’ racial membership of trade unions was outlawed.
such trade unions were desegregated and separate unions for whites and blacks established.
Certain types of labour were reserved for white workers only.It led to the founding of the SA
Council of Trade Unions, which rejected the notion that industrial relations could be separated
ECONOMIC APARTHEID

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16. REFERENCES:
• TEBOHO STEKZANA APARTHEID (2013) APARTHEID PPT. AVAILABLE AT SLIDESHARE AT HTTPS://WWW.SLIDESHARE.NET/STEKZANA/APARTHEID-IN-
SOUTH-AFRICA-17402145 ( ACCESED AT MARCH 20 2013)
• NQOBILE SIKOSANE APARTHEID (2022)PPT. AVAILABLE AT SLIDESHARE AT HTTPS://WWW.SLIDESHARE.NET/NQOBILESIKOSANE1/GRADE-11-HISTORY
(ACCESSED AT OCT. 25, 2022)
• PAWAN KUMAR SINGH(2017)PPT. ON APARTHEID PPT. AVAILABLE AT SLIDESHARE AT
HTTPS://WWW.SLIDESHARE.NET/PAWANKUMAR1162/APARTHEID-72960994 (ACCESSED AT MAR. 8, 2017)
• PRINCE JAMA (2020)APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA 1948-1994 -SLIDESHOW AVAILABLE AT HTTPS://WWW.SLIDESHARE.NET/PRINCEJAMA/APARTHEID-
IN-SOUTH-AFRICA-19481994- SLIDESHOW ( ACCECCED AT AUG. 17, 2020)
• MRS HELLER (2010) APARTHEID AVAILABLE AT SLIDESHARE AT HTTPS://WWW.SLIDESHARE.NET/MRSHELLER/APARTHEID-5771644 (ACCECCED AT
NOV.13.2010 )