Essay plans for Edexcel A-Level history South Africa- 2F from apartheid state to rainbow nation

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South Africa:

,“Black South Africans were urbanised to a considerable degree
before 1948” to what extent do you agree with this statement?

Discriminatory legislation

 1911 natives labour registration act- pass books, movement
restriction

 1913 natives land act- 7%

 1923 natives act- only in towns to serve whites/ townships

Afrikaner culture and politics

 Extreme racist views, white supremacy proved by battle of blood
river

 Dutch reformed church

 Laager mentality- greater the opposition, the greater the
determination

Urbanisation

 White people needed cheap labour- tempory contracts

 1919-1939 every black man worked for a white person, 23% lived in
1946

 Creation of townships

To what extent was growing African urbanisation the main reason
for the implementation of apartheid legislation in the years 1948-
59?

African urbanisation

 White people needed cheap labour- tempory contracts

 1919-1939 every black man worked for a white person, 23% lived in
1946

 Creation of townships

Afrikaner culture and politics

 Extreme racist views, white supremacy proved by battle of blood
river

 Dutch reformed church

 Laager mentality- greater the opposition, the greater the
determination

,  Disenfranchisement of all non-white voters

 Belief that black people were the most content in rural areas

Opposition groups

 ANC and PAC- defiance campaign

 Womens protest

 Rural opposition

 Feared overthrowing government and losing power

 Feared their economic and political rights as the minority in SA (1/3
of blacks)

How far do you agree that there were fundamental tensions
about the development of South Africa between the English and
Afrikaner South Africans?

Growth in Afrikaner nationalism

 The Broderbund caused a distinct identity which all prime ministers
were a part of

 The Dutch reformed Church thought it was God's plan to separate
white and black people and mixed marriages went against this

 They wanted Nazi victory, Greyshirts movement formed after battle
of blood River centreary- 250,000 members by 1939 - uniformed
militias mass rallies and shooting associations

Conflict of Britain

 English speakers dominated politics and economics as SA was a
dominion of the commonwealth

 Boers beat in the second Boer war over the gold rush

 Supported different sides during WW2

Similar values

 Extremely racist and wanted segregation laws in place

 White supremacy and European superiority

 Disenfranchisement of non-white voters

To what extent was the growth of Afrikaner nationalism the main
reason for the success of the national party in the 1948 election?
(20 marks)

, Afrikaner nationalism

 The Broderbund caused a distinct identity which all prime ministers
were a part of

 The Dutch reformed Church thought it was God's plan to separate
white and black people and mixed marriages went against this

 They wanted Nazi victory, Greyshirts movement formed after battle
of blood River centreary- 250,000 members by 1939 - uniformed
militias mass rallies and shooting associations

Impacts of WW2

 The United party had extra 125,000 workers only 25 of which were
white and therefore they feared the Africans would take their jobs
after the war

 The UP caused inflation, dismal housing record lack of white bread
food shortages

 Growing ideas of self-determination and human rights after World
War II

 Postwar unity among Afrikaners

Failures in UP leadership

 Associated with communism, we can brace relations

 Suggested an influx of black workers to white areas weakening of
the belief in segregation

 Old and unoriginal vague ideas and unappealing

Weighting of the constituencies

 NP appeared in raw areas which got more votes than urban areas
and so could gain a overall majority

 NP 70 seats and UP 65

 UP 140,000 more votes overall

How accurate is it to say that the government’s education laws
were the most important feature of apartheid in the 1950’s?

Education laws

 Bantu education act- end subsidies to mission school, vocationalism
to be cheap labour, Harmful to give children ideas above their
station