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Y224: Apartheid and Reconciliation: South African Politics 1948–1999

The development of Apartheid and growing resistance: Verwoerd, Vorster, the homelands and apartheid’s effects

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Overview

Recall questions on Verwoerd and Vorster, South Africa’s international position in 1960 and 1961, the Bantu Self-Government Act and homelands, the effects of apartheid on every group, the Freedom Charter and the founding of the PAC.

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Key term

What were the effects of apartheid on black South Africans in this period?

Numbers

How did South Africa's international position change in 1960 and 1961?

Who and when

How did Vorster's rule differ from Verwoerd's after 1966?

Questions from this subtopic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

  1. 1

    What was Verwoerd's contribution to apartheid?

    Model answer

    As minister for native affairs and then prime minister from 1958 he gave apartheid its systematic ideology, designing Bantu Education and the homelands policy and presenting separation as self-determination for separate nations.

  2. 2

    How did South Africa's international position change in 1960 and 1961?

    Model answer

    White voters narrowly approved a republic in a referendum, and hostility from newly independent African states forced South Africa to leave the Commonwealth when it became a republic in 1961.

  3. 3

    How did Vorster's rule differ from Verwoerd's after 1966?

    Model answer

    Vorster kept the structure of apartheid but relaxed a few details, expanded the security apparatus with a new intelligence bureau, and pursued an outward policy of contacts with African states.

  4. 4

    State what the Bantu Self-Government Act of 1959 established.

    Model answer

    It set up self-governing homelands for separate African ethnic groups, presenting them as future nations, and abolished the remaining white parliamentary representatives of Africans.

  5. 5

    Explain why the government introduced the homelands policy.

    Model answer

    It answered international criticism of denying rights to the majority by claiming Africans would exercise those rights in their own states, while decolonisation elsewhere made self-determination the fashionable language in which to dress apartheid.

  6. 6

    What were the consequences of the homelands policy?

    Model answer

    Millions were forcibly moved to overcrowded, impoverished territories with no industry, Africans lost South African citizenship when their homeland was declared independent, and no foreign state ever recognised the new nations.

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