apartheid


 * 1) What does the word " apar theid” mean In what language?It means apartness to Dutch Afrikaners


 * 1) In South Africa, how are people organized according to race ? by what color you where black ,white, coloured(mixed race), or Asian(mainly Indians)

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 * 1) What countries are South Africans’ ancestors from (i.e. what ethnic groups are there)? How large are these ethnic groups? And which languages do they speak? South Africans’ ancestors are from

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 * 1) When did apartheid become an official government policy in South Africa? in 1948 after world war two.
 * 2) What was the purpose of Apartheid? The purpose was to separate the 4 races a divide the land between them.
 * 3) What did the government do at the outset in order to reach that goal? They passed a large number of laws to structure the apartheid government.
 * 4) Explain the policy of "separate development" in your own words.

township-unit of local goverment usally a subdivison of the goverment passbook-a document carried around by black citezins in south africa labor permit curfew regulations preventive detention
 * 1) Give definitions of the following key terms:homeland/Bantustan


 * 1) Choose two laws (from the site below) that were created under apartheid and explain them in your own words.

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1.one laws says whites where not allowed to marry people of other races.

2a seconed law says that a black person must have a passbook with them if the want to leave the house so that they could be identifed or if they didnt have them they would be put in jail.