OCR GCSE History A J410
Castles: Form and Function c.1000–1750Historic environment
China 1950–1981: The People and the StateDepth study
Germany 1925–1955: The People and the StateDepth study
International Relations: The Changing International Order 1918–1975
Migration to Britain c.1000 to c.2010Thematic study
Personal Rule to Restoration 1629–1660British depth
Power: Monarchy and Democracy in Britain c.1000 to 2014Thematic study
South Africa 1960–1994: The People and the StateDepth study
The English Reformation c.1520–c.1550British depth
The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688–c.1730British depth
The USA 1919–1948: The People and the StateDepth study
The USA 1945–1974: The People and the StateDepth study
Urban Environments: Patterns of MigrationHistoric environment
War and British Society c.790 to c.2010Thematic study
South Africa 1960–1994: The People and the State
Consolidating apartheid in the 1960s: the Bantustans, state control and Sharpeville
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- Paper 1
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.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
Which groups gave the apartheid system its strongest backing?
Was white opinion in the 1960s united behind the racial order?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What did the government mean by ‘separate development’?
Model answer
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
Model answer
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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