| Term | Definition |
|---|
| The Black Sash | White wealthy women; Mourned loss of democracy; Passive but powerful; When someone political arrived they had to walk through 2 lines of women wearing black sashes |
| 1948 Election Results | National- 70; Afrikaner- 9; United- 74 |
| Albert Luthuli | Became ANC chairman in 1952; Awarded nobel peace prize in 1960 |
| Sauer Commision 1947 | Malan of the Purified Nationalists - rebutted everything said in the Fagan Report. It was the total opposite. |
| Fagan Report 1947 | To investigate segrigation: Main point said 'total segrigation was just not practical. By Smuts of the United Party |
| Abolition of passes and co-ordination of documents 1952 | Ended old pass book system but brought in as replacements reference books, commonly called passes. Given to anyone over 16; The books still held I.D. details of the old book but now held things like address, employer, signature etc; Without it you could be jailed or sent back to tribal homeland |
| National States Citizenship Act | Gave every black citizenship |
| Group Areas Act 1950 | Split country into racial setllement zones; Harder to get to work if they worked with people of another race then they had to travel to different racial settlements; This was before the Native Settlement Act |
| Terrorism Act 1967 | Made and act meaning if someone started questioning or objecting the law they went to jail. They arrested people because there were feelings of hostility between races. They were jailed; They were allowed to hold suspects (people they didn't like) for as long as they wanted then send them to jail by will. |
| Bantu Education Act 1953 | Change the education system; encouraged churches to hand over their schools to the government - teaching in more native language instead of english. Black were taught less science and maths meaning they were less educated and had worse jobs and pay |
| Supression of Communism 1950 | Purified Nationalists (Malan) - Allowed them to accuse anyone of being a communist and jail them for as logn as they wanted without trial; anyone who supported democracy or who wanted to change the government |
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