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Apartheid By Talen Sehgal
Beginnings• 1913 Land Act– Reserves– Sharecroppers
Growth
• 1948 Afrikaner Party won election• Used Slogan “Apartheid” • Strengthened Racial Segregation
Structure
• Population Registration Act of 1950– Separated People based on Color • White• Colored• Bantu
Rights
• Bantu people lost rights, homes, jobs• Deemed “unequal”• No longer allowed in Government
Effects
• Bantu people lost jobs• Treated as less than human• Ripple effect
Opposition
• Formation of the African Nation Congress• Led by Nelson Mandela– Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation)
Opposition
• Nelson Mandela arrested in 1963-1990• Drew international support for the Anti-
Apartheid cause
Apartheid Ends
• United Nations denounces Apartheid in 1973• USA and UK imposed economic sanctions in
1985• 1994 Elections held marking end of Apartheid
Master Harold…and the boys
• Time setting was 1950s• Willie and Sam were both Black Males• Harold was White• Not seen as equals• Man of Magnitude