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Justice, Justice, Justice
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This person said, "I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
Who is Nelson Mandela?
100
A. Nelson Mandela elected president of the Republic of South Africa B. The Treason Trial C. The Battle of Blood River
What is C, B, A?
100
The refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy, characterized by the employment of such nonviolent techniques as boycotting, picketing, and nonpayment of taxes.
What is CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE?
100
An act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India initiated by Mohandas Gandhi to produce salt from seawater, as was the practice of Indian people until British officials deemed such production illegal and repeatedly used force to stop it.
What is the Salt March?
100
An official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.
What is amnesty?
200
A South African social rights activist and Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid.
Who is the Bishop Desmond Tutu?
200
A. World War I B. National Party gains power and adopts apartheid C. South African War
What is C, A, B?
200
A group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation.
What is a COLONY?
200
The discovery of these two minerals, termed the Mineral Revolution, led to South Africa quickly evolving from a rural, agricultural state to an urban, industrialized nation that relied on cheap labor.
What are diamonds and gold?
200
X is a matter of giving those who violate human rights law and commit crimes against humanity their "just deserts." Punishment is thought to reinforce the rules of international law and to deny those who have violated those rules any unfair advantages.
What is retributive justice?
300
A unified group of South Africans who were able to fend of European settlers for around 100 years despite not having access to guns or horses.
Who are the Xhosa?
300
A.The Sharpeville Massacre B. Britain ends slavery in all British colonies, including the Cape of Good Hope C. President F.W. de Klerk legalizes anti-apatheid groups and releases Nelson Mandela.
What is B, A, C?
300
A period of widespread chaos and warfare among indigenous ethnic communities in southern Africa during the period between 1815 and about 1840.
What is the MFECANE?
300
These four countries share an external border with South Africa.
What are Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique?
300
This top Nazi official was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials. He was sentenced to death by hanging, but committed suicide by ingesting cyanide the night before the sentence was to be carried out.
Who is Hermann Goring?
400
Nomadic pastoralists descended from mostly Dutch colonists.
Who are the trekboers?
400
A. Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act passed B. The ANC and PAC establish their armed wings C. Alexandra Bus Boycott
What is A, C, B?
400
An internal passport system designed to segregate the population, manage urbanization, and allocate migrant labour; a dominant feature of the South Africa's apartheid system
What are the PASS LAWS?
400
Around the third century CE, different groups of people speaking related languages that fit under this umbrella term entered the South African region. They migrated from the east coast of Africa in the southern areas and introduced cultivation to much of the continent.
What are the Bantu?
400
The four pillars of restorative justice.
What are inclusion, encountering, making amends, and reintegration?
500
An anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970, this person founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population. Since his death in police custody, he has been called a martyr of the anti-apartheid movement.
Who is Steve Biko?
500
A. Indians first arrive in South Africa as indentured servants B. World War II C. The Congress of the People adopts the Freedom Charter
What is A, B, C?
500
An order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
What is an EMBARGO?
500
This act, passed in 1950, began the process of designating every inch of land in South Africa resulting in whites holding all the best land and 86% of the total land area despite comprising only 20% of the total population.
What is the Group Areas Act?
500
The following quotation comes from this document, "the South African state in the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s became involved in activities of a criminal nature when, among other things, it knowingly planned, undertook, condoned and covered up the commission of unlawful acts, including the killing of political opponents and others, inside and outside South Africa."
What is the Final Report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission?