Vocab
Dates
Colonisation
Political, economic and social issues
Ideology, policy and practice
100

What is the name for the South African theory of racial separation?

What is 'apartheid'?

100

In what year was the Union of South Africa formed?

What is 1910?

100

Which European country first colonised South Africa in 1652?

What is the Netherlands (Dutch)?

100

Which system divided South Africans by race after 1948?

What is apartheid?

100

What was the basic claim of apartheid ideology?

What is races living separately for mutual benefit?

200

What is the term for early Dutch farmers in South Africa?

Who are the Boers?

200

In what year did the Purified National Party win the election and implement apartheid?

What is 1948?

200

What valuable resource triggered war between the British and Boers in 1899?  

What are diamonds?

200

By the early 1960s, most African countries had undergone what major political process?

What is decolonisation?

200

What were the impoverished, under-resourced black-only regions called?

What are Bantustans or homelands?

300

What do we call the set of beliefs that justify or guide political systems?

What is an ideology?

300

What year did the Sharpeville massacre occur?

What is 1960?

300

What did Jan van Riebeeck do to create a barrier for the new colony in South Africa?

What is planting a double row of wild almond trees. 

300

What economic issue did the ‘Poor White Problem’ seek to address?

What is the economic decline of Afrikaners and the fear of race-mixing?

300

What was the purpose of the Population Registration Act (1950)?

What is to classify all South Africans by race?

400

What is a pass book?

What is a document black South Africans had to carry that included their ID, fingerprints, and work information?

400

When were Bantustans first introduced?

What is 1953?

400

Which political party formed in 1923 to fight for black African rights?

What is the ANC (African National Congress)?

400

What social consequence did the pass book system create for black South Africans?

What is mass criminalisation and loss of movement rights?

400

Why were factories placed near Bantustans?

What is: so black workers could work in white areas but not live there permanently?

500

What does “Eie Volk, Eie Taal, Eie Land” mean?

What is "Our own people, our own language, our own land"?

500

In what year did South African women burn down a beer hall in protest?

What is 1959?

500

What ideology inspired Daniel Malan and the Purified National Party?

What is Nazism (ideas of racial purity)?

500

How did apartheid function as ‘Afrikaner affirmative action’?

What is protecting poor white Afrikaners from economic competition and reinforced white dominance.

500

How did the Homeland System attempt to strip black South Africans of their citizenship?

What is: by relocating them to ‘independent’ homelands, making them foreign workers without rights in white South Africa?