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Freedom in Our Lifetime: South Africa’s Struggle

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Introduction: A Negotiated Revolution

What were the main racial categories in South Africa?

Part I: Precolonial and Colonial South Africa

Who lived in South Africa before the Dutch arrived?
Who are the Afrikaners?
What are the different interpretations of the Mfecane?
How did white colonization affect African societies?
How did Africans respond to white colonization?
What were the different ways Africans resisted colonization?
What happened at the Battle of Blood River?
How was the Battle of Blood River significant during apartheid?
How did the discovery of diamonds and gold affect South Africa?
What was the migrant labor system?
How did the migrant labor system develop?
Where did migrant workers come from?
How did Indian people come to South Africa?
What was life like for Indian indentured servants?
How did the migrant labor system change how Africans lived?
How was the Union of South Africa formed?
What was the role of Africans in the Anglo-Boer War?

Part II: Apartheid and Its Opposition

What is the African National Congress?
What were passbooks?
What are the origins of Afrikaner nationalism?
What was life like after the National Party came to power in 1948?
Why did most white people in South Africa support the government?
What were the economic reasons for apartheid?
How did apartheid affect the daily lives of Africans?
How did apartheid keep people separate?
How did white South Africans instigate violence between Indians and Africans?
How did Indian workers in Natal Province oppose the government?
Why did the government restrict Black settlement in the cities?
Why did the government “ban” people?
What was the Federation of South African Women and why was it created?
Why did you form the Durban and District Women’s League?
How was apartheid different from other systems of racial division?
How did some white South Africans oppose apartheid?
What were the homelands?

June 1961: The Moment of Decision

How did Sharpeville affect the anti-apartheid movement?

Epilogue: Becoming South Africa

What was the Rivonia Trial?
How did international opinion help to end apartheid?
How did the Soweto uprising contribute to the end of apartheid?
What factors led to the end of apartheid?
How did economic troubles weaken apartheid in the 1980s?
How does the new South African constitution reflect human rights issues?
What was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)?
How was media used to involve the public in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
How have things changed since the early 1990s?
How have things changed since the early 1990s?
How has the end of apartheid affected the economic situations of South Africans?
What challenges exist in South Africa today?
What political and legal challenges exist in South Africa today?

Lesson: Colonial South Africa

How did Africans respond to white colonization?
How did white colonization affect African societies?
How did Moshoeshoe protect Lesotho from the Boers?
How did Lesotho’s history shape the culture of its people?
What were the different ways Africans resisted colonization?

Lesson: Poetry and Politics

How did Sharpeville affect the anti-apartheid movement?
How did the Soweto uprising contribute to the end of apartheid?
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