Apartheid

By Jared Stark, Joshua Gibbs, Ellis Cook, and Nathan

Apartheid

Nelson Mandela

Change of society

Why?

Life like

Effects today

New laws?

1. When did the apartheid start/end?2. Who is Nelson Mandela, and why

was he important?3. Why did the apartheid start?4. Were there any disagreements?5. How were the people’s reaction?

A legal racially segregated system of government

Enforced by the National Party government in South Africa

Ruled by whites, discrimination against blacks, Indians, and coloreds

1948-1994

1948

1994

1953

1951

1951

19501946

1963

1962

1960

1976

Late 1980s

1991

•First white settlers pretty mean•Most funded by institutions or royalty•Thought that they could take the land• “If you are bigger and stronger, you take what's

there”•Natives started realizing what's up•Whites decided segregation was answer•Thus apartheid born

Hard to get work Turned to crime

Bad health

Bad living conditions

Mental health

Court-like restorative justice

First of 19 others like TRC

Believed to be successful

Based in Cape Town

Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act

African women, no rights

Political offenses

Sports under apartheid

Whites

Asians

Colored

Blacks

Population registration

Immorality/mixed marriages

Group act

Bantu authority

Pass law

Voters registration

Population restriction act

Classified into three categories

White, black, and colored (coloured)

A government bureau classified race

Illegal to marry someone of different race

Later became illegal to have any relationship with someone of another race at all

Immoral/mixed marriage act

Forced separation between racesForced separation between races

Gave the different races Gave the different races homelandshomelands

Each homeland was independentEach homeland was independent

Lost there right to vote and lost Lost there right to vote and lost their their

citizenship in south Africacitizenship in south Africa

Had to carry a dompas if the age Had to carry a dompas if the age of 16 and upof 16 and up

Required to take it wherever you Required to take it wherever you wentwent

Similar to a passport but had more Similar to a passport but had more information information

Born

Life

Occupation

Prison

Born

Life

Occupation

Prison

Presidency 1994

1995

1999

Nelson Mandela

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

“In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement. “-Nelson Mandela

Born-Death

President

Prime Minister

Zuid Africa

Almost every aspect

changed

Voting of blacks and

coloured lost

Racially classified

Separated from homes

into homelands

Protesting

Protests worldwide

Some parts able to protest

Several nations had embargos

White only jobs

Whites only ones allowed to vote

Not allowed to marry who you want

Answer 1

It started 1948 and ended in 1994

Answer 2

He is an African president that helped end the apartheid and the segregation during it.

Answers 3

Because the first white settlers thought that segregation was the only way to keep power over the blacks and other Africans.

Answer 4

There were a lot of disagreements between the people and the political people that were segregating everyone. It caused many, many riots and fights.

Answer 5

The people’s reaction was a lot of protesting against it which actually helped cause the apartheid to end.

Websites:http://www.southafrica.to/history/history1948.htm http://www.helium.com/items/816867-how-and-why-apartheid-was-

established-in-south-africa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_under_apartheid http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/

apartheid.hist.html http://www.africanaencyclopedia.com/apartheid/apartheid.html http://www.mrdowling.com/610-apartheid.html http://africanhistory.about.com/library/bl/blsalaws.htm

Books:Nelson Mandela: a life in photographs by: David Cohen and John D.

BattersbyMandela: A Critical Life by: Tom LodgeThe rise, fall, and legacy of apartheid by: P. Eric Louw