Apartheid History
Effects of Mining
Platinum
Homelands
South Africa
100

The country Apartheid originated in

What is South Africa?

100

One possible solution to the mining problem

Options: water usage limit, waste management program, emission control, a ban on construction, no more platinum mining, etc.

100

The war that popularized the use of platinum

World War II

100

An underdeveloped urban living area for non-white residents under apartheid

What is a township?

100
The continent South Africa is in
... What is Africa?
200

Areas segregated based on ethnic identity

What is a homeland?

200

The unfair and unjust treatment of a worker for another's benefit, often involving coercion, deception, or abuse of power (two words)

What is labor explotation?

200

The country that has the largest platinum mining industry

What is South Africa?

200

Another word for homelands

What is Banstustans?

200

The six colors of the South African flag

Red, blue, green, yellow, white, black

300

The party that started Apartheid laws

What is the National Party?

300

The place where most of the mining waste went

What is the mountains?

300
The chemical symbol (two letters on the periodic table) for platinum
What is Pt?
300

The largest ethnic group
(hint: Lives in the KwaZulu-Natal homeland)

What is the Zulu?

300

Which is bigger-- the US or South Africa?

What is the US?

400

The dates/years of Apartheid

What is 1948 to the late 1990s?

400

The three things platinum mining affects (environmentally)

What is the land, the air, and the water?

400

The four uses for platinum mentioned in the slides

What are jewelry, car parts, electronics, and medical tools?


400

The number of homelands in apartheid South Africa

What is ten?
400
Name two countries that border South Africa

Options: Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), and Lesotho

500

The year the Population Registration Act was passed (separation of racial groups)

What is 1950?

500
The term for the waste from platinum mining that caused water pollution (three words)

What is platinum mine drainage?

500
Platinum is __ times more rare than gold

What is 30?

500
Even though they were 70% of the country's population, the Black South Africans were only given this percent of land.

What is 13%?

500

The largest, most populous city in South Africa

What is Johannesburg?

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