Apartheid

5th Period || __** Apartheid WebQuest **__ Apartheid to Dutch Afrikaners means “apartness”. In order to gain some background knowledge before we read an excerpt from __A Long walk to Freedom__ by Nelson Mandela, please take notes on the following questions. Print/type directly onto the sheet and print it out. Unless otherwise noted, explore these links: [] [] []
 * Michelle Derewitz

In Afrikaans,( a South African national language) it means apart-ness.
 * 1.What does the word "apartheid" mean? In what language? **

Every South African was classified as black, white, colored or Asian.
 * 2.In South Africa, how are people organized according to race? **

They are from England, Holland, India and central Africa. They speak English, Afrikaans, Hindi, Bantu, and other tribal languages. Approximately 8% are white and the rest are black and mixed race.
 * 3.What countries are South Africans’ ancestors from (i.e. what ethnic groups are there)? How large are these ethnic groups? And which languages do they speak? **

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It started in 1948.
 * 4.When did apartheid become an official government policy in South Africa? **

The purpose was to separate the different races from each other.
 * 5.What was the purpose of Apartheid? **

It needed to define what constituted each race.
 * 6.What did the government do at the outset in order to reach that goal? **

It means that each of the nine Bantu groups had to form a nation called Bantustan in about 14% of South Africa’s land, and that the rest of the country would be populated by whites and Asians. []
 * 7.Explain the policy of "separate development" in your own words. **

__ homeland/Bantustan __ - a designated area for tribal blacks where they needed to relocate, which made up about 14% of South Africa’s land. __township__ – an African area on the outskirts of a city __ passbook __ - A domestic passport __ labor permit __ - a certificate permitting the holder to work in certain jobs in certain ares. __ curfew regulations __ - rules limiting the areas and times when a person could be out of their home __ preventive detention __ - the government’s ability to arrest and hold someone for an unlimited period of time event though they have not been charged with a crime
 * 8.Give definitions of the following key terms: **


 * 9.Choose two laws (from the site below) that were created under apartheid and explain them in your own words.**

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1.The Population Registration Act in 1950 was a law that stated that everyone’s race had to be recorded.

2.The Bantu Building Workers Act in 1951 was a law that stated that blacks were allowed to be trained as artisans in the building trades. However, they had to work only in places designated for blacks. Before this act, whites were only allowed to do this.