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The South African National Party
The national party, the party for apartheid, was then group of people who were in favor of apartheid. General J.B. Hertzog was the first leader of the National Party. In 1948, the National Party was in almost compleye power over South Africa. F.W De Klerk was the last Leader of The National Party. He set Nelson Mandela free and ended apartheid. -
Apartheid History and Policies
Apartheid was a system in South Africa that forced the population to divide into ethnic groups. The whites had most of the economic and political power, while non-whites had virtually no rights at all. There were many policies like creating independent "homelands." After non-whites protested, the laws were abandoned. Even though Apartheid was over, its effects and memories aren't. Their social life is hindered because people still make fun of non-whites with their words and rude acts. -
Apartheid: Leaders and Practices
Apartheid was a policy that white and blacks had to be seperate. The founder of Apartheid was the National Party that governed South Africa. Many tried to stop this, but failed. In 1989 F.W. de Klerk became South Africans president and ended the laws. -
Apartheid
Aparthied means aparteness in 1948 a law was made called Apartiehd.the law said that whites And blacks, coloreds and asians had to be sapetred. whites can not use the same stuff as blacks, coloreds and asians. This law has made non-white people poor in south africa and when the law was ended in the year 1994 the people who were poor are still poor. also alot of people spent time in jail because of aparthied. -
Population Registration Act
The Population Registration Act made each person that lived in South Africa be put into groups with their racial characteristics as part of the system of apartheid.social and politacal rights, educational opportunities, and economic status were determined by which group a person was in. -
Hendrik Verwoerd
Hendrik Verwoerd, or the father of Apartheid, moved to South Africa with his parents when he was an infant. There he went to study in Germany and became a member of the National Party. He had many positions in office, but his top position was Prime Minister of South Africa. He made many policies, bans, and harsh laws that supported Apartheid and his belief that Africans aren't as important as whites. In conclusion, Hendrik was the 1st person to really set Apartheid into action. -
Bantu Authorities Act of 1951
The Bantu Authorities Act of 1951 was about racial seperation. The actual Act had to do with the Apartheid. This Act put black or colored people in a sepret homelands called a "Bantustan." Once a person was resided within a homeland he or she lost citizenship rights within South Africa. -
Bantu Education Act of 1953
In 1953 Hendrik Verwoerd founded the Bantu Education Act. The act was unfair and didn't give the black South Africans the education they needed. The government only let the schools teach the kids how to work in factories and do hard labor. The government did not want the kids to be more educated than they were. They forced the schools to teach Africans, a language they didn't even know. -
The Freedom Charter of 1955
In 1953 the first mention of a Freedom Charter was brought up as a what if idea at The African National Congress. Thousands gathered in Kliptown on June 25 and 26 1955 to discuss the terms of the charter. It benefited not only the black community but for all the ethnicities of South Africa. They were all given leaflets that gave a briefing of the benefits to ending the apartheid which said that South Africa should belong to everyone. The Charters leaders were arrested for treason. -
Rivonia Trial
The Rivonia Trial, was a trial were ten leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) were tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to overthrow the aparthied system.The trial lasted from 1963 to 1964. They were found guilty and the men were sent to life imprisonment at Robbin Island, including Nelson Mandela -
Nelson Mandela-Imprisonment
Nelson Mandela was imprisoned the first time because of his participation in the Defiance Campaign. He had to stay in a Johannesburg jail for 6 months. A little while later he left the country illegally and was arrested and sentenced to 5 years in prison. During his sentence, he was found guilty of treason and sababtoge in the Rivonia Trial. In 1964 he got a life sentence. He was released on Febuary 11, 1990 by President De Klerk. He served 27 years in prison. He became the first black president -
Soweto Uprisings of 1976
A act when Africans had to learn Afrikaans and a big arguement about the apartheid system. People wanted to achive a goal. One goal is to not teach Afrikaans in black schools and another goal is that the Africans wanted to collapse the apartheid system. When the Africans were rioting and protesting, the police stepped in and killed many during their riots.Children started to protest and many died during. their protests. -
F.W. de Klerk
De Klerk was a very important president in South Africa.He served as president from 1989 to 1994. He was the driving force to the end of Apartheid. Even though he knew that his own race would not be in control anymore, he still followed through for the end of Apartheid. At first de Klerk approved aprtheid, but he drastically changed. He also let Nelson Mandela, the most important person in South African history, out of prison. -
F.W. de Klerk
F.W. de Klerk is a very important person in South African history. Frederik Willem de Klerk was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa. He also ended apartheid and South Africa's Racial Segregation Policy. The two most memorable accomplishments of his were releasing 8 members of the outlawed National Congress from prison and releasing Nelson Mandela from prison, too. Along with mandela, he was awarded the Nobel Peace prize for his work on apartheid in 1993. -
Nelson Mandela Success
Nelson Mandela served twenty-eight years in prison unfairly, from 1964-1982. In, 1991, Mandela presited at the first sanctioned metting, since 1964. In 1993, Mandela and Willem De Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize for ending apartheid. On May 10, 1994, Mandela was elected state president of South Africa in the first democratic all-race election. Nelson Mandela was the first black Presisent of South Africa, until he retired in 1999. -
Nleson Mandela Succeses and Failures
Nelson Mandela was very succesful in his lifetime. He always stood up for what he believed in. Nelson Mandela's succeses were joining the ANC in 1944, becoming the ANC's president in 1951, and becoming the South African president. His majorr setback was getting sent to jail for twenty seven years. His major accomplishments were he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, was the first black president in 1994, and was one of the few statesman to earn universal respect and from the political spectrum. -
The African National Congress
The ANC was a liberatiion movement against apathied. It was formed in 1912 but took a major role in South Africa in 1994. Some of the most famous leaders of the ANC were Nelson Mandela,and Desmond Tutu. The ANC fought to give all South African people all the rights that the whites had. The ANC effected the way South Africa saw its people. -
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu loved learning. His life goal was to obalish apartied. He worked really hard to do just that. At the end of this journey he became the chairman of the Truth and Reconcilliation commitee, who assed human rights violations. He was sucessful in abolishing apartied. -
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu had many accomplishments. He battled against apartheid for many years. He was Elected Archbishop of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg. He was the very first Black African to have this position. He also accomplished earing a Maters degree in Theology and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was a great man. Desmond Tutu left a huge impact of the world's society. He was Awarded The Nobel Peaces Prize. -
Jacob Zuma sworn as president of South Africa
On this date, Jacob Zuma was sworn as president of South Africa. This success came 10 years after he became deputy president of South Africa under Thabo Mbeki, and 4 years after his rape charge, in which he was found innocent. He has served 10 years in Robben Island Prison for resisting apartheid.
