Nelson Mandela, South Africa, and Apartheid

Boycott

A refusal to buy or use goods and services.

AIDS/HIV

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome caused by HIV - human immunodeficiency virus spread by exchange of bodily fluids.

Afrikaners

Afrikaners are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving in the 17th and 18th centuries. They dominated South Africa's agriculture and politics prior to 1994.

United Nations

An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.

African National Congress

An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress, it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.

Bishop Desmond Tutu

Bishop who led non-violent protests against apartheid in South Africa; Won the Nobel Prize for it.

What did South Africa due the first time in 1994

Elected Nelson Mandela as the first Black President of South Africa. Held a fully representative democratic election

HIV in South Africa

Extremely high rates of infections are found in South Africa.

Cyril Ramaphosa

Led the Black National Union of Mineworkers and organized major strikes between 1985 and 1987. Now, he is the current President of South Africa

Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

Nelson R. Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader of the African National Congress, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first Black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election in 1994.

Homelands Policy

Policy where territory was set aside for only Black inhabitants of South Africa as part of the policy of Apartheid.

South African currency

Rand

protest against passbooks, police fired on protest, many people killed, African National Congress was banned

Sharpeville Massacre

Aparheid

South African government policy of strict racial segregation; ended in 1993.

UN sanctions in South Africa

The UN Security Council applied sanctions against South Africa and its Apartheid policies. These restrictions are intended to enforce international law

F. W. de Klerk (1936- )

The last National Party president (1989 - 1994) of South Africa during the Apartheid era. He freed Nelson Mandela in 1990 and worked with him to establish the country's first free election.

Pretoria, South Africa

What is the capital of the nation that is located at the southern tip of Africa?

Afikaans

a language of southern Africa, derived from the form of Dutch brought to the Cape by Protestant settlers in the 17th century, and an official language of South Africa.

Laws that stated Blacks had to carry documentation (passbooks) to show where they lived and worked. Blacks could also own land only in homelands, and couldn't be out after the sun went down.

pass laws

Transition of white power to black power was amazing to the world because it was ___ and ___.

peaceful and non-violent

Cape Town

seaport city and legislative capital of South Africa; first Dutch colony in Africa

The South African diamond rush was sparked by

the discovery of the Star of South Africa