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: [] [] []

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

They classified every South African as black, white, colored (mixed race), or Asians (mainly Indians). [] They are from white Dutch descendants, the ethnic groups are colored, Indian, White, Chinese, African, colored, they speak
 * 1) In South Africa, how are people organized according to race?
 * 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?


 * 1) When did apartheid become an official government policy in South Africa? It became an official policy in 1951.
 * 2) What was the purpose of Apartheid? The purpose of the Apartheid was to separate the different races from each other.
 * 3) What did the government do at the outset in order to reach that goal

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 * 1) Explain the policy of "separate development" in your own words.

township passbook labor permit curfew regulations preventive detention
 * 1) Give definitions of the following key terms:homeland/Bantustan


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

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