HOTA STUDY SOUTH AFRICA

Apartheid Laws historical context

NP introduce apartheid as government polucy

WHY? : white supremacy

-determining rights via race

Grand Apartheid

“were doing better”

-townships

slums, cheap labor, area of protest

-pass laws

POLTICAL STATUS

Petty Aprtheid

=Prohibition Mixed marraige act 1949

-immorality amendement: secual immoral races

-seperate amenenities : NOT EQUAL

-Bantu education: seperate education, why give education to laborers

SOCIAL STATUS

Nelson Mandela

-ANC leader

-studied Law

—>affter massacre support vioelnce

-establish MK ANC armed wing

MK armed wing

formed after sharpville massacre

Oliver Tambo

found ANC youth leafue

-feld into exile after sharpville massacre

Sharpville Massacre

protest against pass law w/ o identification

—>outside police station

-police open fire kill 69 people

Albert Luthuli

-ANC president

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-Leader during Defiance campaign

-protest against apartehid

-nonviolent tactics, viotlate laws = mass arrest

-organizer freedom charter conference

-arrested and tried in Treason Trial

F.W. de Klerk

-lift ban on ANC

-free prisoners

-open negotiations, new government + constotution

—> called white-only vote to end apartheid

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

formed Inkatha Freedom Party

—→IFP oppose use violence MK

—governminte provide w/ military and trining funds

Rivonia Trial

After MK operations

—>arrested leading anti=apartheid activists

Nelson Mandela. etc.

Soweta Uprising

protest via black students

—> bantu educaatioin:

Timeline

National Party: implement apartheid

Degiance Campgain: go against laws

Freedom Charter

-Treason trial: leaders prosecuted

-Sharpville Massacre: 69 death

-MK established

-Rivonia Trial: life sentences

-Soweto uprising

-De klerk