Flashcards: Apartheid in South Africa

Harry Heinz Schwarz (13 May 1924 – 5 February 2010) was a South African lawyer, statesman and long-time political opposition leader against apartheid in South Africa, who eventually served as the South African ambassador to the United States during the country’s transition to majority rule.

Evelyn Mase (18 May 1922 – 30 April 2004) was a South African nurse, who was the first wife of the anti-apartheid activist and future politician Nelson Mandela, to whom she was married from 1944 to 1958.

The sjambok (IPA: [ˈʃæm.bʌk, -bɒk]) or litupa is a heavy leather whip.

Richard Ambrose Reeves was an Anglican priest and opponent of Apartheid in the 20th century.

Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche (31 January 1941 – 3 April 2010) was a white supremacist and Afrikaner nationalist in South Africa who was the founder and leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).

Soweto (/səˈwɛtoʊ, -ˈweɪ-, -ˈwiː-/) is a township of the city of Johannesburg in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south.

Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiographical work written by South African President Nelson Mandela, and published in 1995 by Little Brown & Co.

Johannes Frederik Janse Van Rensburg (known as Hans) (24 September 1898 – 25 September 1966) was a South African lawyer, and leader of the Ossewabrandwag.

Mandela: The Authorised Biography is a study of Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa, by the late journalist Anthony Sampson.

Kgosi Lucas Manyane Mangope (born 27 December 1923) is the former leader of the Bantustan of Bophuthatswana and founder and former leader of the United Christian Democratic Party, a minor political party based in the North West province of South Africa.

uMkhonto we Sizwe (abbreviated as MK, Zulu for "Spear of the Nation") was the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), co-founded by Nelson Mandela in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre.

When Smuts Goes is a dystopian novel by Dr.

Sarafina! is a South African musical by Mbongeni Ngema depicting students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to apartheid.

Social apartheid is de facto segregation on the basis of class or economic status, in which an underclass is forced to exist separated from the rest of the population.

Clive John Derby-Lewis (born 22 January 1936) is a South African ex-politician, who was involved first in the National Party and then, while serving as a member of parliament, in the Conservative Party.

Dr. Maitshwe Nchuape Aubrey Mokoape (born 6 September 1944) was also known as a political anti-apartheid activist and a former leader of the Pan-African Congress and Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa.

Shael Polakow-Suransky (born January 10, 1972) is the president of the Bank Street College of Education.

Marthinus Christoffel Johannes (Kortbroek) van Schalkwyk (born 10 November 1959 in Pietersburg), an apartheid era intelligence operative, academic, lawyer, politician is a former MP and Minister of Tourism in the Cabinet of South Africa.

Werner Willi Max Eiselen (1899–1977) was a South African anthropologist and linguist.

A Very Strange Society: A Journey to the Heart of South Africa is a 1967 non-fiction book by Allen Drury.

Sandra Laing (born 1955) is a South African woman notable for appearing as and being classified as "Coloured" by authorities during the apartheid era, due to her skin colour and hair texture, although she was the child of at least three generations of white ancestors.

Peter Ralph Randall was an anti-apartheid publisher in South Africa, and was banned by the former South African government between 1977 and 1981.

Robert Resha (1920-1974) was a South African journalist and political dissident.

James Kantor (26 February 1927 – 1974) was a South African lawyer and writer.

Internal resistance to the apartheid system in South Africa came from several sectors of society and saw the creation of organisations dedicated variously to peaceful protests, passive resistance and armed insurrection.