Key Individuals
The person who gave the "I Am Prepared To Die" speech at the Rivonia Trial.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The colloquial name for the set of laws that required coloured individuals to carry a special passport.
What are the pass laws?
The trial which was named after a suburb in Johannesburg where the defendants had been arrested.
What is the Rivonia Trial?
The party of Nelson Mandela.
The color of the most privileged race during Apartheid.
What is white?
The last president of South Africa from the National Party.
Who is F. W. de Klerk?
The category for people not considered White, Black or Indian.
What is coloured?
A massacre following a protestor confrontation at a police station in 1960 that led to a state of emergency and the outlawing of the ANC?
What is the Sharpeville Massacre?
The ruling party during the period of Apartheid.
What is the National Party?
What are the Boers?
The name for a set of laws that enforced racial segregation between white and non-white areas, such that non-whites could not purchase properties or live in white areas.
What is the Group Areas Act?
An uprising in response to the introduction of Afrikaans as a language of instruction in black schools.
What is the Soweto Uprising?
The general, modern term for White South Africans who predominantly speak a language derived from Dutch with the same name.
Who are the Afrikaaners?
A territory set aside for the Bantu people.
What is a Bantustan?
The sixth Prime Minister of South Africa and one of the key engineers of the social systems of Apartheid.
Who is Hendrik Verwoerd?
A law that prohibited marriages between different races.
What was the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949?
A peace march consisting of 30,000 locals at the named city calling for the end of apartheid in 1989.
What is the Cape Town peace march?
A movement turned political party made as a Black Nationalist response to the ANC's multi-racialism.
What is the Pan Africanist Congress?
A sovereign Boer Republic established in the 19th century that shares the first word of it's name with a fruit.
What is the Orange Free State?
An Anti-Apartheid activist that was murdered while in police custody in 1977, sparking outrage.
Who is Steve Biko?
A pejorative term that describes the act of race mixing.
What is miscegenation?
The trial at which then leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe Wilton Mkwayi was sentenced to life in prison?
What is the Little Rivonia Trial?
The militant wing of the ANC.
What is UMkhonto we Sizwe?
The UMK leader who was responsible for approving the Church Street Bombing.
Who is Oliver Tambo?