South Africa topic 1

• National Party wins election and DF Malan becomes Prime Minister


  1948
• When was the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act passed

  1949
• When was the Population Registration Act

  1950
• Suppression of Communism Act

  1950
• When was the Immorality Act

  1950
• When was the Group Areas Act?

  1950
• When was the Separate Representation of Voters Act?

  1951
• When was the Bantu Authorities Act?

  1951
• When was the Pass Laws Act?

  1952
• When did the ANC leads Defiance Campaign?

  1952
• When was the Bantu Education Act?

  1953
• When was the Freedom Charter?

  1955
• When was the Tomlinson Commission on the 'Homelands'?

  1955
• When was the Pass Laws extended to women?

  1956
• Treason Trial - 156 ANC members were put on trial; none were charged


  1956
• Sekhukhuneland Revolt


  1958
• When did the ANC split

  1958
• When did Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister?

  1958
• When was the PAC formed?

  1959
• Cato Manor Riots


  1959
• What was the freedom charter in 1955?

  where anti-apartheid groups came together aiming for equality

  • It called for a democratic South Africa with a fairer distribution of land and ownership
• What was the defiance campaign 1952?


  Groups of volunteers who broke racially based restrictions e.g curfews

  • 4,000 to 100,000 people joined. For the first time it seemed to be attracting mass following
• What was the treason trial 1956?


  Authorities arrested 156 of those who attended the kliptown meeting and charged them with high treason

  • Accused of trying to overthrow the government
  • Acquitted in 1961: Negative impact on the ANC as its leaders were tied up in legal proceedings for 7 years
• What were the reasons for the NP victory in 1948?

  1) Afrikaner Nationalism: Broerderbond- this organisation dedicated to Afrikaner interests such as businesses (this is so they were advanced)

  • Segregation: Racial division remained

  2) WW2: Blue print for Apartheid

  • As jobs were occupied by Africans and whites were at war when they came back there was competition
  • Still white poverty (feeling unpresented and resentful)
• Afrikaner Nationalism


  Broerderbond - this organisation dedicated to Afrikaner interests such as businesses (this is so they were advanced) and Segregation
• WW2


  • Blueprint for Apartheid - As jobs were occupied by Africans and whites were at war when they came back there was competition. Still white poverty
• Smuts (UN)


  Shared the racial attitude of everyone but was a pragmatist (if an industry needed more black people he would do so)
• Smuts (UN)


  Failed promises by UN- Getting involved in WW2, lending arms to Britain & Poland which put South Africa in financial trouble after the war
• What were the reasons for the NP victory 1948?

  1) Afrikaner nationalism

  2) WW2

  3) Election itself/ UN mistakes