Views about the concepts of Apartheid and the impact it has in South Africa

1. Apartheid in South Africa
Compiled by Luyanda Masango

2. Lesson Outcomes
• To understand the apartheid policy.
• To understand what the policies intended to achieve.
• Understand the impact that apartheid had and still has in SouthAfrica today
• Understand how resistance led to South Africa being a democratic country

3. What is Apartheid

4. Definition of Apartheid
• The word apartheid means "apartness“
• Apartheid was a legal political and social system that was introduced in
1948 by the white minority
• Apartheid segregated people based on their racial grounds.
• It aimed to protect the domination of the white South Africans over none
whites in all aspects of life

5. Effects of Apartheid
• Black people over the age of 16 were forced to carry passes to prove their identity and the fact
that they were permitted to be where they are.
• Black people were placed in homelands that were independent states and led by a African leader
assigned by the government according to the record of origin
• Under apartheid South Africans was forced to live in separate places and forced to use facilities
such as toilets and buses.This was done to limit contact between the two.
• Policies such as the land act that separated places and gave whites a large portion of land which
resulted to masses of black people living in squatter camps.This impact is still felt today.
• Job titles available were based on your racial status. Jobs available for black people were
teachers, domestic servants, miners and other titles in that caliber

6. Continuation

7. Resistance to apartheid

8. Continuation
• As the conditions black people lived under, resistance started and grew more and more as
parties such as the ANC started mobilizing blacks in masses
• Bus boycotts, segregation boycotts took place whereby people black people entered
whites only areas and used whites only facilities
• Resistance would include the 1976 uprising in Soweto whereby learners took to the streets
to address the problems they were facing
• The peaceful strike resulted to numerous school kids being injured and some loosing their
lives
• Resistance continued and the country became ungovernable until the white government
were forced to shift power

9. References
• http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html
• DuToit, J.M, (2009-2010) A view of South Africa from the inside. Available
at.
• http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html