Apartheid

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: [] [] []

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 * 1) What does the word "apartheid" mean? In what language?
 * 1) In South Africa, how are people organized according to race?
 * Black, white, colour (mixed race), or Asian (mostly Indians) **
 * 1) 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?
 * Black, white, colour (mixed race), or Asian (mostly Indians) and they all spoke Afrikaners **
 * 1) When did apartheid become an official government policy in South Africa? **It came official in 1984**
 * 2) What was the purpose of Apartheid? **It was made for separating the races.**
 * 3) What did the government do at the outset in order to reach that goal? **they made a policy that was know as the seperat devolpment.**
 * 4) Explain the policy of "separate development" in your own words. **it would have been bad because if you were one race you had to go live in so and so and if you were another race you had to live somewhere else**

homeland/Bantustan- an are reserved or occupied by black African people, with limited self-government.
 * 1) Give definitions of the following key terms:

township-

passbook -

labor permit -

curfew regulations -

preventive detention-


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

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