SS Africa Exam Part 1
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- Sharpeville
- assembled in front of ____________ police station, 69 protesters were killed
- Black Consciousness
- movement to encourage blacks to take pride in their race, overcoming lies they have neen told about whites being better than them
- Donald Woods
- White newspaper editor in south africa, befriends Biko
- African National Congress (ANC)
- liberation movement, unites african people, ANC was illegal
- Soweto
- Where over 700 black students revolted about the schools, brought international attention to south africa
- Divest
- instead of invest south africans wanted countrys to stop trading with the white south africans in order to make the whites treat blacks better
- Desmond Tutu
- he was the first black archbishop of Capetown, priest in south africa, worked in London, won nobel peace prize in 1984
- Banning
- this restricts someone to a particular area, when they are _____ they can be with more than 1 person at a time, no public places
- 'Spear Of Nation'
- military wing of the ANC
- Homeland/Reserves
- where blacks legally lived, usually far away from jobs, more rural
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- given power to grant amnesty, post apartheid, uncovered what how blacks really died
- Passbooks
- had to be carried by colors where thery were out of their townships, these were burnt in protest against the goverment
- Afrikaans
- language of south african dutch descendents, south africans were taught in this language
- Townships
- where blacks legally lived, were forced, more urban areas
- "Biko" "Sun City" "Nelson Mandela"
- these were songs blacks living under apartheid would sing to annoy police officers or to make them happy
- F.W. De Klerk
- last apartheid-era president, freed mandela,
- Apartheid
- means apartness, segergation between colored and whites, in south africa
- Radio Freedom
- underground radio station that informed on what really happened in certian places
- Nelson Mandela
- leader of the ANC, sentenced to Robben Island, he got out in 1990
- Robben Island
- Little amounts of food, 5 miles of the coast of south africa, a place where blacks if the broke the law had to stay
- Steve Biko
- died in police custody, a leader of Black Consciousness