South Afirca
Dutch people living in SA spoke Afrikaans
Called Boers
Cecil Rhodes
Lord Kitchener- lord of British military in war
Boers want to separate
Transvaal
Orange free state (Boer territory)
2nd Boer War
Gorilla warfare- used by Boers on England --and thought they could defeat them but thy are loosing
England invent Concentration Camps
English kidnapped women and children and put them in camps and destroyed farms
Boers come out of hiding
English win Boer War
English invite SA to join Commonwealth status too
Economic rehabilitation
-Afrikaans
80% Bantus(black population) can't vote
African National Congress
Adolf Hitler
-Nazis --white SA support them
-Dutch Reformist Church also supported them
National Party 1948
Daniel Malan
Apartheid --separation between white Afrikaans and white and colored people
1950 Group areas Act
-Geographically separate races
1953 Separate Amenities act
1. Whites
2. Colored
3. Black
-separate beaches
-separate everything
White only towns --made from Gov of SA
to figure out how to separate it they went to the US to get ideas
Went to Canada and got the idea from the separation of aboriginals
They made the colored people stay in the "Homelands" --Bantustans
80+% 11-13%
ANC PAC
led by Albert Luthuli 1960 it came to a dramatic end
Sharpesville --Peaceful protest until SA police came with jets and weapons
69 killed 180 injured
Both of these groups outlawed
Nelson Mandela 1961 set free
creates a group called Umkhonto we Sizwe "Spear of the Nation"
1964 Mandela convicted until 1989 in Robben Island
Canada
Australia
Great Britain
SA votes to become republic
they leave the Commonwealth
Separation was a way the Apartheid controlled the black nation
85% of the nation against the regime
Afrikaans persecuted by the English -- they carved out south Africa so they would be free -same as Israelis did
1974- Big Turning Point for SA
The Afrikaans passed the Afrikaans Medium Degree ~residential school sort of
You could only learn Afrikaans or English --illegal to learn another language
Not since Sharpsville was there an uprising like this, but more violent ~Soweto
1500 armed police showed up, 600 people dead in Soweto
First time after Soweto White people joined the Blacks in their protest against Apartheid
South Africa kicked out of World Cup
SA has many Nuclear weapons
1985 president of SA -Botha
he issues state of emergency -never lifted it
1989 election
De Klerk comes to power- grew up in Apartheid regime
Doesn't like separated Society and joins Afrikaans to Black community
"need to be different in the same country"
legalizes ANC
Mandela has been in prison for 25 year --he is now Freed 1989
1993 Nobel Peace Prize shared with DE Klerk and Mandela
Mandela becomes president
Truth and Reconciliation
saying revenge is not Justice ~ people must own up to what they've done -Moving forward
Called Boers
Cecil Rhodes
Lord Kitchener- lord of British military in war
Boers want to separate
Transvaal
Orange free state (Boer territory)
2nd Boer War
Gorilla warfare- used by Boers on England --and thought they could defeat them but thy are loosing
England invent Concentration Camps
English kidnapped women and children and put them in camps and destroyed farms
Boers come out of hiding
English win Boer War
English invite SA to join Commonwealth status too
Economic rehabilitation
-Afrikaans
80% Bantus(black population) can't vote
African National Congress
Adolf Hitler
-Nazis --white SA support them
-Dutch Reformist Church also supported them
National Party 1948
Daniel Malan
Apartheid --separation between white Afrikaans and white and colored people
1950 Group areas Act
-Geographically separate races
1953 Separate Amenities act
1. Whites
2. Colored
3. Black
-separate beaches
-separate everything
White only towns --made from Gov of SA
to figure out how to separate it they went to the US to get ideas
Went to Canada and got the idea from the separation of aboriginals
They made the colored people stay in the "Homelands" --Bantustans
80+% 11-13%
ANC PAC
led by Albert Luthuli 1960 it came to a dramatic end
Sharpesville --Peaceful protest until SA police came with jets and weapons
69 killed 180 injured
Both of these groups outlawed
Nelson Mandela 1961 set free
creates a group called Umkhonto we Sizwe "Spear of the Nation"
1964 Mandela convicted until 1989 in Robben Island
Canada
Australia
Great Britain
SA votes to become republic
they leave the Commonwealth
Separation was a way the Apartheid controlled the black nation
85% of the nation against the regime
Afrikaans persecuted by the English -- they carved out south Africa so they would be free -same as Israelis did
1974- Big Turning Point for SA
The Afrikaans passed the Afrikaans Medium Degree ~residential school sort of
You could only learn Afrikaans or English --illegal to learn another language
Not since Sharpsville was there an uprising like this, but more violent ~Soweto
1500 armed police showed up, 600 people dead in Soweto
First time after Soweto White people joined the Blacks in their protest against Apartheid
South Africa kicked out of World Cup
SA has many Nuclear weapons
1985 president of SA -Botha
he issues state of emergency -never lifted it
1989 election
De Klerk comes to power- grew up in Apartheid regime
Doesn't like separated Society and joins Afrikaans to Black community
"need to be different in the same country"
legalizes ANC
Mandela has been in prison for 25 year --he is now Freed 1989
1993 Nobel Peace Prize shared with DE Klerk and Mandela
Mandela becomes president
Truth and Reconciliation
saying revenge is not Justice ~ people must own up to what they've done -Moving forward
Quotes
"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires."
-Nelson Mandela
"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life."
-Cecil Rhodes
-Nelson Mandela
"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life."
-Cecil Rhodes