Africa During Apartheid

SS7H1 The student will analyze continuity and change in Africa leading to the 21st century.

•Apartheid (separateness) was a system of legal racial segregation enforced by the National Party government in South Africa between 1948 and 1994, under which the rights of the majority black inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and minority rule by whites was maintained

What was South Africa like during Apartheid?

Mandela and F.W. de Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993

Non-white Africans had to carry passbooks at all times.It included work history, personal information, and criminal records.Authorities could ask to see it at any time.Non-whites had to prove that they had permission to be in a white area.

Nelson Mandela wasin prison for 27 years for opposing apartheid

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South Africa during Apartheid.

South Africa at the end of Apartheid.