Apartheid

Apartheid WebQuest Apartheid to Dutch Afrikaners means “apartness”. In order to gain some background knowledge before we read an excerpt from __A Long walk to Freedom__ by Nelson Mandela, please take notes on the following questions. Print/type directly onto the sheet and print it out. Unless otherwise noted, explore these links: What does the word "apartheid" mean? In what language? Apartheid means to be apart, or apart-ness in the South African National language Afrikaans. This was a policy of racial segregation put in place by the National Party that was in power from 1948 until 1994. In South Africa, how are people organized according to race? The people in the part of South Africa were classified as black, white, colored -which means mixed race- or Asian (which were mainly the people from India). This created segregation in the education, housing employment, public facilities and transportation within the South African area, limiting rights to the non-white people that were residents in that area. What countries are South Africans’ ancestors from? How large are these ethnic groups? And which languages do they speak? [] During the time of the Apartheid 75% of the country’s population was black, 13% were white, 9% of them colored, and 3% of the people living there were Asian.  When did apartheid become an official government policy in South Africa? The Apartheid became an official government policy in South Africa in the year of 1948. What was the purpose of Apartheid? The purpose of the apartheid was for the races to be segregated, that included every race. What did the government do at the outset in order to reach that goal? The government of the time of the Apartheid claimed that a true peaceful coexistence of the different races would only be possible if the races were to be segregated form each other, but the white government was using the Apartheid as a way to control the non-white races. Explain the policy of "separate development" in your own words.  [] Give definitions of the following key terms:
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 * 1) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';">homeland/Bantustan- one's native land
 * 2) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';">township- segregated residential settlement
 * 3) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';">passbook- reference book (if non-whites don't hold one they are warranted to arrest)
 * 4) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';">labor permit- African Americans had to have one to live in the urban areas for work had to be inside by this time of warranted for arrest
 * 5) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';">curfew regulations- had to be inside by this time of warranted for arrest (for non-whites)
 * 6) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';">preventive detention- the holding of someone in jail or institution because s/he is thought as a danger to the community

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',sans-serif; text-align: center;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';">1**.** **Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949-** Prohibited marriages between two different races, during the year 1946 the enactment of this law only seventy-five mixed marriages were recorded, which is compared to the 28,000 white marriages during that time.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';">Choose two laws (from the site below) that were created under apartheid and explain them in your own words.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',sans-serif;">2. **Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act, Act No 52 of 1951-**Gave the Native Affairs Minister the power to remove the blacks from land (publicly and/or privately owned), and to create resettlement camps to house the displaced people.