Discovery Education 2012
Apartheids Last Stand
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Directions: As you are watching each segment, answer the following questions.
Segment: Nelson Mandela Fight to End Apartheid
1. How long had racial separation existed in South Africa? For nearly 300 years
2. What did the S. African government do to Nelson Mandela?
3. Thirty years later what was celebrated in South Africa?
4. What did Mandela preach at that time?
5. Describe the city of Johannesburg and Cape Town. Does it seem that the two
races live harmoniously together?
Segment: Black Youth Protest racial segregation
6. What was the Bantu law of 1953? What was it the cornerstone of?
7. Summarize the Soweto Riots 1976
8. What were white people in South Africa led to believe about the blacks in
South Africa?
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Segment: White Afrikaners Settlements on Robben Island
9. Why didn’t White Afrikaners question authority of their government on the
island?
10. Discuss the types of international pressure on the South African government
and the affects.
Segment: Nelson Mandela and political prisoners freed.
11. Summarize the main points of this segment.
Segment: Racial Reconciliation
12. What is racial reconciliation? How was it received in South Africa?
13. What was the purpose of the Truth & Reconciliation commission?
Black White income gap
14. Summarize the main points of this segment.
Prison reopens as a museum
15. What was the main purpose of making the prison a museum?
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