born a crime

The European presence in South Africa dates back to the

17th century

whites founded the Union of South Africa, an independent arm of the British Empire that gave the white minority control of the country and disenfranchised Black population.

1910

Land Act unofficially launched apartheid by requiring the Black population to live on reserves.

1913

Apartheid officially became a way of life in South Africa in

1948

ANC leader Nelson Mandela explained this during the famous ______ speech he gave after being jailed for two years for inciting a strike.

1964

Fewer than 30 percent of Black South Africans had received any kind of formal education whatsoever by _____ .

1939

From ________________, more than ________ people were forcibly removed from their homes and deposited in the Bantustans, where they were plunged into poverty and hopelessness.

1961 to 1994. 3.5 million

The South African government made international headlines when authorities killed hundreds of Black students peacefully protesting apartheid in

1976

Police killed anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko in his jail cell in September

1977

Biko's story was chronicled in the ______ film "Cry Freedom," starring Kevin Kline and Denzel Washington.

1987

The South African economy took a significant hit in ______ when the United States and Great Britain imposed sanctions on the country because of its practice of apartheid.

1986

In ________, Nelson Mandela was released from prison after serving __ years of a life sentence.

1990, 27

De Klerk and Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in ______ for their efforts to unify South Africa.

1993

In ______, Mandela became South Africa's first Black president.

1994

More than ______ laws led to apartheid's establishment in South Africa.

300

All South Africans over the age of __were required to carry racial identification cards.

16

Sharpeville Massacre

70 killed, 190 injured

white minority passed a series of land acts that resulted in them occupying __________ of the country's land.

80 to 90 percent

Trevor's uncle

Uncle Velile

Trevor's grandfather

Temperance Noah

Trevor's aunt

Sibongile

grandmother

Frances Noah

Bulelwa, Mlungisi

cousins

In _____, Dutch colonizers came to Cape Town under British rule and gradually developed their own culture and language. These colonizers, Afrikaners, took over the South African government when British rule ended in the .

1652, 1800s

Languages Trevor speaks

English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Tswana, Southern Sotho, Zulu, Tsonga

Patricia began secretarial school in Soweto at

21

Chinese immigrants were classified as _____. Japanese as ______

Black, white

Trevor still reminds his friends that they do not _____ the object of their love.

own

mixed-race South Africans have had a more _______ history than Black South Africans.

difficult

Trevor's one day gf

Maylene

Maylene rejeected him for _____

Lorenzo

High school

Sandringham High School.

Zulu party

Inkatha Freedom party

Bloodless Revolution

Lil white blood spilled

don't undermineme, don't underestimate me, just try me

Sun'qhela

Jubilant churce

mixed church

Analytical church

white church

Passionate, cathartic church

black church