Apartheid in south Africa Inquiry Lesson

Apartheid in South Africa Today you will begin an inquiry lesson in which you will read, watch, and gather information from several different types of resources. After the days of research, you will be creating and information web to show all that you learned. You will also take a quiz, which will count as a double formative at the end of the week. Follow the directions on each slide and use your organizer to gather facts and information. You may use additional paper if you find you need more room.

Overview Go back to my blog page and click on the link titled South Africa-Apartheid Overview. As you read, you should take notes on your organizer.

Read the following passage, Take notes on your organizer: Apartheid, the Afrikaans’ word for segregation, brought white supremacy to a whole new level as the rest of the continent was decolonizing following World War II. The National Party government treated non-whites as second class citizens and in the case of Africans, non-citizens. By confining Africans to the ‘homelands’ of Bantustans, the National Party was able to justify stripping away any basic rights Africans had in the country of South Africa. The international community refused to recognize these homelands, and pressure eventually began to build from all sides to allow equal rights for all residents of South Africa. Pressure came in the form of economic sanctions, expulsions from international organizations, and the divestment of foreign companies (Craig et al 1002 & Vandenbosch 1-11).

Analyze- Political Cartoon. Take Notes on your organizer.

Go to the blog to view… Mandela’s Legendary Speech and ..Take Notes on your organizer.

Africa in Images Go to the blog and view the powerpoint titled “ South Africa in Images”. Take Notes on your organizer.

Analyze-Political Cartoon. Take Notes on your organizer.

Explore. Take Notes on your organizer. Visit this website and “click around” to explore and research more about Nelson Mandela http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/nelson_mandela/

Analyze-Political Cartoon. Take Notes on your organizer.

Read the Following Passage, Take Notes on your organizer. Additionally, due to the isolation from the rest of the world more money, citizens, and time were forced to be spent on research new military technologies because of the inability to purchase Western weapons systems. Finally, the profound effect of the arms embargo was on South Africa’s relationship with the international community. If an arms embargo had not been put in place, the West would not have been able to directly challenge the regime in power. Thus the embargo as a whole not only served to raise awareness and politicize the struggle against the apartheid movement in the West, it boosted the opposition against the South African state (Grundy 109-111).

Watch The video-Artists Against Apartheid Take Notes on your organizer. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/steven-van-zandt-sun-city-helped-break- apartheid/story?id=21180715

Read the Following Passage, Take Notes on your organizer. : De Klerk, in his own book, gives credence to the overall international movement. He notes that never before in history had a country had to deal with the “comprehensive international campaign” against the country (de Klerk 114). Not only were the economic stresses demanding, the restrictions on travel, notably on fly-over and landing rights for South African airlines, and the cold-shoulder many white South Africans received while traveling abroad in the 1980s all contributed to the isolation. He then describes how the sanctions net began to tighten in on the country. Later, he stressed the impact that the loss of financial support was taking on the country as a whole and that it became a “source of social unrest” (de Klerk 183).

Timeline of events in South Africa. Take Notes on your organizer. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14094918