Topic 2: Republic
- Created by: Kdale
- Created on: 09-06-22 16:32
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- Creating a republic 1960-61
- Verwoerd's aims
- complete apartheid- grand apartheid- separate development
- this could only be achieved if South Africa moved from the influence and control of Britain
- The significance of Macmillan's 'Wind of change' speech
- Conservative PM of Britain
- Feb 1960
- celebrating 50 years of the union of South Africa
- responding to Verwoerd's call for a republic
- 1956- nearly 2/3 of external investment was from Britain and 1/3 of trade with Britain
- 'the wind of change blowing through Africa'- encourage decolonisation
- Presented that African nationalism was natural, indicating white south africans needed to accept it
- implied that black South Africans should have political rights
- Verwoerd understood decolonising Africa by pursuing the homeland policy
- A republic established
- October 1960 52% (white south africans) voted a republic
- Black opposition parties rejected the move
- Became a republic on 31 May 1961
- the rand replaced the pound
- Leaving the Commonwealth
- March 1961 conference called
- Verwoerd intended to be a republic in the commonwealth
- Asian and African heads of state strongly against them remaining in this
- Afrikaner dream fully established
- Verwoerd's aims
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