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
The state and the South African people, 1960–1994
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Overview
Racial classification, residential segregation, influx control and migrant labour, job reservation and petty apartheid, the effects on African women and children and on Coloured, Indian and white South Africans, the churches, the homelands, white business and opinion, and the problems of the sources.
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What is meant by petty apartheid?
How were the churches divided by apartheid?
Questions from this subtopic
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How did the South African state fix each person’s racial classification?
Model answer
Every inhabitant was entered in a national register as white, Coloured, Indian or African on the basis of appearance, descent and how they were accepted socially, and boards could reclassify people, sometimes splitting a single family between two categories.
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How was residential segregation enforced in the cities?
Model answer
Districts were proclaimed for one race only, and anyone of the wrong classification was removed by law: District Six in Cape Town was declared white in 1966 and its inhabitants moved out to the Cape Flats.
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What was the aim of influx control and the migrant labour system?
Model answer
To let mines and factories use African labour while preventing African families from settling permanently in the cities, so men lived in single-sex hostels on contract and their wives and children stayed in the reserves.
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What was job reservation, and what became of it?
Model answer
Skilled and supervisory work was reserved by law for whites, but as industry grew short of skilled labour the colour bar was quietly dropped during the 1970s and formally abandoned at the end of that decade.
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What is meant by petty apartheid?
Model answer
The everyday segregation of public life — separate park benches, beaches, post office counters, buses and station entrances — imposed by the law on separate amenities, which expressly allowed the facilities to be unequal.
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What was the ultimate purpose behind the whole structure of apartheid law?
Model answer
To keep political power permanently in white hands while dressing that up as self-determination for each ethnic group, and to keep African labour available without African citizenship.
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