South Africa today?
For how long:
Materials:
- texts from the google website
- material from "Engelskfaget.dk"
- the movie "Goodbye Bafana"
In 1912 the whites started to divide the country. In 1948 the Nationalist party made the brutal apartheid laws.
The first white colonists came to South Africa in the middle of the 17th. century
The Dutch and the British fought against each other in the Boer Wars. They fought over land, gold and diamonds
A divided population
Years of discrimination
4 groups of people in South Africa:
- Blacks
- Whites
- Coloured
- Asian
In the years until 1990 the non-white population experienced:
- discrimination
- repression
- poverty
- violence
- "Homeland", living areas were for blacks with no permits to work in the towns
- "townships" were for non-whites, who worked in the towns
What to learn in this topic:
Black political parties were forbidden
- Nelson Mandela, jailed on Robben Island. Freed in 1990, after 26 years of prison.
Reconciliation years
In 1991 Mandela was elected president.
The apartheid years ended, but South Africa still
struggles.
- to know more about South Africa, formerly a British colony
- to know more about the apartheid years and Nelson Mandela
- to know more about South Africa today, including problems with crime and aids
- to acquire new vocabulary
The struggle of South Africa