Origins
What political party took power in 1948?
What is the Afrikaner Party (or NP, National Party)
It was founded in 1914 and disbanded in 1997
What is National Party (afrikaner whites)
made it compulsory for all black South Africans over the age of 16 to carry the "passbook" at all times within white areas
Pass laws
Beginning in 1948 the party as the governing party of South Africa began implementing its policy of racial segregation, known as apartheid (the Afrikaans term for "separateness")
National Party (NP)
The most politically viable of the Bantustans. An unrecognised state in the southeastern region of South Africa from 1976 to 1994. It was a Bantustan—an area set aside for members of a specific ethnicity—and operated as a nominally independent parliamentary democracy
Transkei
who were the uitlanders
what is British
One justification for Afrikaners comes from this theological approach....the APOV is that it was not so much white superiority but that the Boers were poor farmers with little interest in theology
What is Calvinism
also known as Bantu homeland, black homeland, black state or simply homeland; Afrikaans: was a territory set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia), as part of the policy of apartheid.
Bantustans
apartheid law in South Africa that prohibited marriages between "Europeans" and "non-Europeans". It was among the first pieces of apartheid legislation to be passed following the National Party's rise to power in 1948.
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act 1949
laws designed to strengthen state security
repressive laws
the policy in S. Africa of discrimination on the basis of race
what is apartheid
A theory that people are subject to the laws of natural selection as plants and animals.
What is Social Darwinism
the apartheid government forcibly moved 3.5 million black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of people in modern history. ... Blacks were forcibly removed to distant segregated townships, sometimes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from places of employment in the central cities
forced removals
forbid unmarried sexual intercourse between "Europeans" and anyone not "European". The prohibition was therefore extended to intercourse between white people and coloured or Asian people.
Immorality Act 1950
government could restrict or ban books, film, or other material
censorship laws
it restricted voting rights
What is South Africa Act
It prevented natives from renting or owning land. Similar to Indian reservations in the U.S.
What is Natives Land Act
a form of apartheid, prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s, that involved comprehensive racial segregation and measures such as the removal of black people from white areas and the creation of black homelands.
Grand apartheid
required every citizen and resident to be classified according to their race and ethnic group, and recorded in the population register
Population Registration Act
allowed the government to establish a Board of Censors
Official Secrets Act 1956
It is comparable to U.S. Indian reservations
What is Natives Land Act
They were competing for political control of S. Africa
What is Afrikaner (Boers, Dutch) vs. uitlanders (British
the practice of segregation in the routine of daily life - in lavatories, restaurants, railway cars, buses, swimming pools and other public facilities. (like Jim Crow in the U.S.)
petty apartheid
assigned racial groups to different residential and business sections in urban areas in a system of urban apartheid.
Group Areas Act
formally banned the Communist Party of South Africa
Suppression of Communism Act