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South African Apartheid
Dates and Names related to Apartheid
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12th Grade
11/29/2006

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1652
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Dutch occupy Table bay, become Afrikaners
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1902
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British win Boer war,
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1912
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ANC founded
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1944
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ANC Youth League founded
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1948
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White National Party takes power
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1955
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ANC adopts Freedom Charter
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1960
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Sharpeville Massacre
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1961
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Spear of the Nation started as military wing of the ANC by Nelson Mandela
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1977
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PW Botha launches "Total Strategy"
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1989
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FW de Klerk replaces Botha
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1992
Definition
Nationalist Party FW de Klerk dismantles Apartheid. Nelson Mandela released. CoDeSa, council for a democratic south africa founded
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1994
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First democratic election. Mandela voted. Truth and reconciliation comittee started
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Pretoria
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Capital of Apartheid, a City where most officals lived
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Afrikaners
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Dutch living in South Africa
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Bantu
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the Enthic group of South Africa, not Zulu though. a specific language
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homelands
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kinda like reservations, designated hometown regions.
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Townships
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places blacks had to live as part of Total Strategy, they were slums on the outskirts of cities.
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Vlakplaas
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Secret headquarters of de Kock and the Broederbond. Center of Torture campaigns
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Broederbond
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A secret society of Afrikaners. Bent on keepin the black man down
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Motherwell massacre
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the Author Godobo was at this where a lot of shots were fired but officially only one person was killed. it was a township police shooting. real gay.
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Necklace killings
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massacre where a group of black activists killed spuspected police colaborators by placing buring tires around the victims heads
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archbishop Desmund Tutu
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Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Comission. won the Nobel PP in 1984
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Robben Island
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Huge torture center. A prison mainly political, where Mandela was held
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Coloreds
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Indians, Asians, mixed race people. They were given more rights than blacks but not as much as afrikaners
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Black Christmas
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After violent flares in townships, the police began harsh attacks becoming black christmas
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Inkatha Freedom Party
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political party of Zulu. AntiApartheid but against the ANC for differing views. very conservative christian right wing party.
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TRC
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Truth and Reconciliation Comission made up of the Human Rights Villations comittee. Reparation and Rehabiliation comitte. and Amnesty Comitee.
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90 day law
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any suspect may be held for up to 90 days with no explanation. no court can release the prisoner.
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electric shock torture
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form of torture used
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psychological torture
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like solitarty confinement. etc
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