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Essential Question: What was Apartheid? What role did Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk
play in the end of Apartheid in South Africa?

Apartheid takes Hold

1. What was Apartheid?
2. When did Dutch settlers come into South Africa?
3. When did the government pass laws establishing Apartheid and what were some of the
results of these laws?
4. What were the Bantustans and where were they located?
5. When was the African National Congress (ANC) founded and what was its purpose?
6. What were the results of the efforts of the African National Congress?
7. Compare and contrast the living conditions between White South Africans and Black
South Africans.
8. When did the South African government finally reject Apartheid?
9. Did you know: Whom else did Apartheid laws in South Africa affect?

Apartheid Explained
1. When did Nelson Mandela become South Africa’s President?
2. Define Apartheid and explain what it was.
3. How many Apartheid laws were there? Give some examples of these laws.
4. How many classification systems existed under Apartheid?
5. Describe the “Homelands” that blacks lived on during Apartheid
6. The video gives several reasons for Apartheid. Name 1 of those reasons.
7. At what age did mandatory education ends for blacks under Apartheid?

Nelson Mandela: Champion of Freedom

1. What was the purpose of the African National Congress?
2. What did the government’s banning order on Nelson Mandela try to accomplish?
3. What year was Nelson Mandela convicted and what crime was he charged with?
4. When was Nelson Mandela released from prison?
5. When was the new South African constitution adopted?

F.W. de Klerk on Negociation

1. What were some of the aims mentioned by F.W. de Klerk?
2. What were some reasons given for delaying Mandela’s release?
3. What do you believe was the purpose of the speech by F.W. de Klerk?