South Africa unit 1
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- UNIT 1
- NATIONAL PARTY VICTORY AND APARTHIED 1948-59
- MALAN -- leader of NP SMUTS---- leader of UP
- 1948 elections - NP won
- 1953 -NP won and votes increase from 400,000 to 600,000
- gained parliamentary power and seats for next 40 years
- 1948 elections - NP won
- society of Afrikaner white men-----Broederbond
- favoured nationalist outlook
- started an ECONOMIC MOVEMENT to promote Afrikaner business
- promoted fear of black danger - swart gevaar
- racism promotion - Africans competing for jobs
- ideas for apartheid -"separate development"
- law to categorise people - "coloured"
- ideas for apartheid -"separate development"
- racism promotion - Africans competing for jobs
- sexual relations fear between races
- accused Smuts for being too sympathetic towards blacks - party failing to control
- opposing parties of NP were Smuts and United party
- liberal policies and shared racial attitudes
- facilitate---need for more black workers
- minister of health of UP wanted to create free health services in SA for blacks and whites in segregated people
- 1948---UP- despite criticisms against NP - UP won by 49% whereas NP had 38%
- MALAN -- leader of NP SMUTS---- leader of UP
- APARTHEID LAWS
- Hendrick Verwoerd --PM 1958-66
- Bantu
Authorities Act (1951)
- ensure traditional authorities were appointed at African reserves
- Promotion
of Bantu Self-Government Act (1959)
- self governing African units
- offering internal decolonisation like europe on africa
- laws to separate races
- 1950 Population registration act
- all SA forced into certain racial group
- 1950
Group Areas Act
- gov have power to declare areas - "white only"
- blacks have to leave against their will
- 1951
Bantus Authorities Act
- government given power to appoint homeland chiefs
- reserves covered 13% of total SA even though blacks were 70% of population
- 1952 Abolition of Passes act
- all men and women
- women protested in 1910
- without passbook can be fined and returned to homeland
- failed to keep Africans out of cities
- all men and women
- 1953 reservation of Separate amenities act
- all races separate facilities like toilets and parks
- 1956 separate Representation of voters act
- coloured could no longer vote with whites
- 1950 Population registration act
- social race laws
- Prohibition of mixed marriages 1499
- no marriage between different races
- Immorality act 1950
- sexual relations between different races
- Prohibition of mixed marriages 1499
- Education laws
- 8x more rands on white student than black student
- 1953- Bantu education act
- school under state control
- black resistance leaders studied there
- less money spent there
- 1959- Extensive of universities act
- limited admission into university to only whites
- new universities built in homelands for black students
- reasons for change
- many young kids joined gangs and street
- gangs like tsotsis
- around 20,000 teens were in cities not at school or employed
- got paid 10 rands which was a lot for a week in the gangs
- act would limit roles for unskilled and illiterate but give more opportunities
- many young kids joined gangs and street
- LAWS against opposition
- 1950 suppression of communism act
- banned communism
- power to arrest anyone they wanted
- racial equality was seen as communism
- 1953 criminal law amendment act
- in response to non violent campaigns by ANC,SAIC
- defied a law to 3 years imprisonment
- anyone encouraging protests to 5 years
- 1950 suppression of communism act
- NATIONAL PARTY VICTORY AND APARTHIED 1948-59
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