South African History
The year the National Party came to power
What is 1948?
The unfair policies established by the National Party to deliberately separate South Africa into its ethnic groups
What is apartheid?
Cape Town
What is west?
The 'face' of the anti-apartheid campaign, famously charming and a powerful symbol for the movement
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The name of the paramilitary wing formed within the ANC after Sharpeville
What is Umkhonto We Sizwe/MK/Spear of the Nation?
The year of the Defiance Campaign in South Africa
What is 1952?
The major grassroots political/guerilla group that began the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa
What is the African National Congress (ANC)?
Johannesburg
What is North?
The 'architect of apartheid', unashamedly racist policy-maker and president of the National Party from 1958-1966
Who is Hendrik Verwoerd?
The name of the areas separated from white society, for black Africans to exclusively live in and 'develop separately'
What are bantustans/homelands?
The year of the Rivonia Trial
What is 1963/64?
The language spoken by Dutch whites in South Africa
What is Afrikaans?
Port Elizabeth (now called Gqeberha)?
What is South?
Called the 'mother of the nation' during her various imprisonments, leader of FEDSAW and other women's movements during the 1960s and 1970s
Who is Albertina 'Ma' Sisulu OR Winnie Mandela?
Name any other National Party leader than Hendrik Verwoerd
Who are Malan/Strijdom/Vorster/Botha/de Klerk?
The year Nelson Mandela was released from imprisonment
What is 1990?
The middle word of the PAC, the splinter group from the ANC
What is Africanist?
Durban
What is East?
The man credited with bringing Mandela into the folds of the ANC Youth League, a staunch anti-apartheid leader, imprisoned alongside Mandela at Robben Island
Who is Walter Sisulu?
Who said this; 'whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.'
Who is Steve Biko?
What is 1961?
This happened to Hendrik Verwoerd, attempted once and followed through on a second time in 1966
What is assassination?
The closest city to Sharpeville, home to the first black massacre in 1960
What is Johannesburg?
Who is Archbishop Desmond Tutu?
What was the exact date of the Sharpeville Massacre?