South Africa
vocabulary from the economies, governments, and histories of different South African countries.
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- how did apartheid end in S. Africa?
- b/c other countries had sanctions against S. Africa which put them under pressure, there was a lot of protests and violence
- Afrikaans
- the lathat the Afrikaners spoke-combined dutch with khoisan and bantu words
- Boers
- Afrikaner frontier farmers who had spread out from the original Cape colony
- genocide
- complete destruction of an entire group of people0
- Great Zimbabwe
- the stone-walled capitol and major trading center
- Cape of Good Hope
- the Dutch set up a trade station near here
- what is a major resource of S. Africa?
- diamonds, gold, zinc, copper, cromium, and platinum
- why did S. Africa resort to Apartheid?
- they wanted to have more power than the blacks so they created a way to control them=apartheid
- Nelson Mandela
- leader of the ANC-jailed for speaking out against the white gov.
- enclave
- a territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory surrounding it
- Who were the first Europeans to settle in South Africa?
- the Dutch
- what were the Khoisan people?
- hunter-gatherers
- Apartheid
- a system of the seperation of races in South Africa- "apartness"
- Desmond Tutu
- a leader of black rights in S. Africa-arch bishop of S. Africa-won the Nobel Peace Prize
- Townships
- seperate areas the blacks lived in during apartheid
- sanctions
- economic or political penalties imposed by one country on another to force a change in policy
- FW Klerk
- president of S. Africa- Black- negotiated with Mandela to end Apartheid- released Mandela from jail- very honorable man to the blacks
- who is the genocide in Darfur focused on?
- black Christians
- African National Congress(ANC)
- the group that supported and promoted black African rights
- Irena Sendler
- Roman Catholic who created a network of rescuers in Poland to smuggle Jewish children out of ghettos in WWII
- Afrikaners
- dutch, french, and german settlers and their descendants in S. Africa