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South Africa 1960–1994: The People and the State

Consolidating apartheid in the 1960s: the Bantustans, state control and Sharpeville

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Overview

Separate development and the Bantustans, the loss of citizenship, who backed apartheid and the white dissenters, the pass book, security laws, Bantu Education, and why the Sharpeville crowd gathered, the shootings and what followed.

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What was a Bantustan?

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Which groups gave the apartheid system its strongest backing?

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Was white opinion in the 1960s united behind the racial order?

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  1. 1

    What did the government mean by ‘separate development’?

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    The policy, driven by Hendrik Verwoerd as Prime Minister from 1958, that each African ethnic group should exercise its political rights only in its own reserved territory and never in white South Africa.

  2. 2

    What was a Bantustan?

    Model answer

    A reserved territory, also called a homeland, set aside for one African ethnic group and given its own administration under a chief loyal to Pretoria.

  3. 3

    What did Africans lose when a homeland such as Transkei was declared independent in 1976?

    Model answer

    Their South African citizenship, which was replaced by citizenship of a state no other country in the world recognised.

  4. 4

    Which groups gave the apartheid system its strongest backing?

    Model answer

    Afrikaner nationalist voters of the National Party, organised through the secret Broederbond, encouraged by the Dutch Reformed Church, and held together by fear of communism and of being outnumbered.

  5. 5

    Was white opinion in the 1960s united behind the racial order?

    Model answer

    Overwhelmingly, though not completely: Helen Suzman of the Progressive Party sat for years as the single opposing voice in parliament, and some business leaders objected that racial job barriers wasted labour.

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    What was the pass book and what did it do?

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    An identity document every African adult had to carry, recording where they were allowed to live and work, so that anyone found in a white area without permission could be arrested.

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