SOUTH AFRICA: APARTHEID
DUTCH SETTLEMENT (1652)
Dutch East India Company
 “Boers” – Dutch Farmers
 Afrikaans – new language (Boers)
 Dutch Reformed Church

 Justified
slavery
 White supremacy
AFRICA
BRITISH AND BOER CONFLICT
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British

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Anti-slavery
Limit land owners
African rights
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Boers

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Slavery
Take all land
No African rights
APARTHEID (“APARTNESS”)
1948 – Afrikaans National Party defeats British
 Apartheid laws:
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Separation of races
 Segregated schools, hospitals, neighborhoods
(Townships), and marriages
 Only whites could vote
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P.W. Botha – President of South Africa (19781989)
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Fully supported apartheid and pushed to suppress antiapartheid resistance
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC)
1912 – Protest Apartheid
 Leader – Nelson Mandela
 1989 – F.W. De Klerk elected new president of
South Africa

 Legalizes
ANC
 Releases Mandela
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1994 – New election – Mandela elected
president
RESISTANCE
Boycotts and protests
led to violent clashes
with authorities
 Sharpeville Massacre
(1960) – 69 people
killed by police
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 Government
declared
state of emergency –
arrested 18,000 ANC and
PAC members
NON-VIOLENCE ACTION
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Non-violent -peacefully resistant, as in
response to or protest against injustice,
especially on moral or philosophical grounds
THINK-PAIR-SHARE - REFLECTION
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Put yourself in the Black South Africans
position. In three separate paragraphs, respond
to the following questions
 How
would you fight against an oppressive
authority? Explain.
 When is it justifiable (right) for a group of people to
pursue violent action? Explain.
 How should people who commit atrocities be
treated? What should be done and why?