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Segregation & Discrimination on the grounds of race!

Segregation & Discrimination on the grounds of race!. System enforced by law in South Africa 1948 -1994. Separation by Race. In 1948- Afrikaners political party - (Dutch) National Party won the elections & established Apartheid!. Pass laws making it legal to discriminate against blacks.

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Segregation & Discrimination on the grounds of race!

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  1. Segregation & Discrimination on the grounds of race! System enforced by law in South Africa 1948-1994

  2. Separation by Race

  3. In 1948- Afrikaners political party- (Dutch) National Party won the elections & established Apartheid! • Pass laws making it legal to discriminate against blacks. • Separates Africans into four groups: Blacks, whites, coloreds (mixed and Asians) • Must carry a pass book- and show passbook when entering a non- black areas

  4. Whites Only

  5. Non- White Train Station

  6. Black Africans & Lack of Freedoms • Blacks had practically no rights; could not vote; denied citizenships • It was illegal for black Africans to protest or meet/ organize • Africans were forbidden to go to white beaches, white restaurants, ride on white busses. • The National Party pushed for Afrikaans language (Dutch) in all schools instead of traditional African languages. • Best land had been taken by the Dutch & other White settlers early in S. African history. • Blacks were now forces into homelands; on the worst land in the country.

  7. Homelands/Slums Homelands/ townships were the worst land, designated for black South Africans.

  8. Legal Segregation in Education No Black African Equality to Europeans

  9. Nelson Mandela

  10. Steven Biko

  11. ArchbishopDesmond Tutu Nobel Prize for struggle against Apartheid.

  12. Leading anti- apartheid party, now majority party in South African government.

  13. Sharpeville uprising & protests, S. African police killed over 60 during peaceful student protest. Protests & Media coverage help to bring awareness!

  14. World Awareness …sanctions & boycotts!

  15. Nelson Mandela & President de Klerk In 1990 President Frederik Willem de Klerk began negotiations to end apartheid, culminating in multi-racial democratic elections in 1994, which were won by the African National Congress under Nelson Mandela.

  16. Racial Reconciliation Nelson’s Mandela and other ANC leaders plan for reconciliation of Whites and Blacks once apartheid was over!

  17. Vocabulary Terms • Afrikaners- Afrikaans speaking decedents of the early Dutch settlers who arrived in South Africa beginning in 1652. • Afrikaans- The language of the minority white population of South Africa and one of the two official languages during the Nationalist Party Unity. • Boers- Afrikaans word meaning farmers, these were the first white settlers from Holland who arrived in South Africa in 1652. • Bantu- identifies a particular group of people coming from Central and South Africa. The Nationalist government used this term in a derogatory way to identify Black Africans.

  18. Extra Credit?

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