| Term | Definition |
|---|
| SOWETO uprising | a series of clashes in Soweto, South Africa on June 16, 1976 between black youths and the South African authorities. The riots grew out of protests against the policies of the National Party government and its apartheid regime. |
| UDF | The United Democratic Front. A multiracial alliance (included ANC) that was opposed to Apartheid. In the 1980s it was increasingly important in resisting Apartheid. |
| Ramaphosa | South African lawyer, trade union leader, activist, politician and businessman |
| Chris Hani | Communist Party leader, and heir to the leadership of the ANC, he was murdered in 1993 by right wing white extremists. |
| WHAM | Botha's stratagy for governing townships ( win hearts and minds) |
| Broederbond | 1918 afrikaner secret society dominated by Transvaal intellectuals and clergy, to mobilize political support |
| apartheid | Apartheid=apartness. A legal system of segregation adopted in S.Africa in 1948 which divided the people into white, black, asian, mixed and controlled their rights and liberties |
| BOSS | Bureau of State Security The Bureau's job was to monitor national security. It was headed by Hendrik van den Bergh |
| Ramphele | Steve biko's lover and major force in BCM |
| People's courts | attempt to south govern in townships to make police less effective |
| KwaZulu homelands | The self-governing homeland of KwaZulu comprised a large number of non-contiguous parts spread throughout the Zululand and Natal. The homeland was granted internal self-government on 01 February 1977. |
| Chase Manhattan Bank | Refused to rollover south Africa's loans sending them into an economic upset |
| Mbeki | current, 2nd black president of South Africa |
| pass laws | laws that stated blacks had to carry passbooks to show where they lived and worked. Blacks could also own land only in homelands, and couldn't be out after dark |
| sara baartman | member of the hottentot tribe, taken from her home to be put on display in london and france |
| 1996 constitution | constitution under ANC emphasizes equality for all who live in south africa |
| ICU | Industrial and commerce union organized protest for the black workers, gained support of middle and lower class blacks had membership of 100,000 |
| Moshoeshoe | apealed for Trekker support from the north of Vaal in exchange for trekker neutrality in dangerous situations that the british conceded Boer independence in the Transvaal in 1852 |
| south african war | 1899-1902 war between british and Boers, may be caused by the rise of Africaker nationalism, British claim over Orange free state and Transvaal paved the way to single south african state in 1910 |
| Cecil Rhodes | Set most British policy in south Africa in the 1880s,,He became rich from diamond and gold companies,,Named a territory after himself (Rhodesia),,Was forced to resign after he planned to over throw the Boer government |
| 1913 native lands act | forbade the purchase or lease of land to Africans outside designated areas known as reserves |
| liberalism | A political ideology that emphasizes the civil rights of citizens, representative government, and the protection of private property. This ideology, derived from the Enlightenment, was especially popular among the property-owning middle classes. (713) |
| Freedom Charter | similar to the Decleration of Independance/Bill of Rights. states the rights that the blacks should have. made in 1955. made by the Defiance Campaign and approved by the Congress of the People. |
| Rivonia Trial | The Rivonia Trial was a trial that took place in South Africa between 1963 and 1964, in which ten leaders of the African National Congress were tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to overthrow the apartheid system. sent mandela and others to prison. |
| Brickfields | poor whites worked in these on the outskirts of the cape |
| Pedi | tribe in northern south africa |
| Afrikaner nationalism | The creation of dutch history and celebration of Afrikaner culture |
| Banning | prohibited someone from being in an area, people could not talk about or quote that person |
| Winnie mandela | nelson mandela's wife. supported him through his protesting. |
| FOSATU | The Federation of South African Trade Unions non-racial umbrella organisation that could coordinate Black trade union movements. |
| PW Botha | Presidet during Apartheid |
| sacp | south African communist party |
| Spear of the Nation | armed wing of the ANC |
| National Party | Afrikaner (white) party. for apartheid. wanted things to be seperate between all the races. |
| 1983 constitution | tri-cameral parliament |
| BCM | black consciousness movement promoted improvement in communities, raise moral of blacks |
| lily moyo | the girl in not either an experimental doll who stived for an education when none was avilible to her, she wrote letters to mabel palmer at the school |
| Vigilantes | blacks who where paid by the national party to create black on black violence to prove that Africans can not govern themselves |
| CODESA | negotiating forum aimed at producing a new constitutional dispensation for a post-apartheid South Africa. |
| ZUMA | President of S. Africa member of ANC and SACP |
| 1856 cattle killing | belief that the dead will arise from the sea if you kill you cattle and refuse to till your fields |
| Gear | Growth, Employment and Redistribution - the neoliberal economic strategy to cover 1996-2000. |
| Sophiatown | free township in johnasberg |
| Garvey movement | Led the back to africa movement in New York |
| 1938 Trek re-enactment | reenactment of the journey and concouring of south africa as a part of afrikanner nationalism |
| Diamonds | mineral found in Kimberly |
| Crossroads Squatter camp | On 18 February 1985 a riot broke out at Crossroads. Eight people were killed and a few hundred injured during clashes between protestors and the police. Between 25 May and 12 June 1986 around 60,000 people were forcibly removed from their homes in squatter camps at Crossroads and its immediate neighbours. |
| Trekboers | Dutch settlers who became Afrikaners and moved and migrated |
| Frontier Wars | series of nine wars between the amaXhosa people and European settlers from 1779 to 1879 in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa. |
| 1955 congress of the people | conference of all the people of South Africa - which presented their demands for the kind of South Africa they wanted. |
| Rand Revolt | strikeof white workers in 1922 |
| mineral revolution | De Beers consolidated made people want diamond. Gold and diamonds were plentiful in South Africa and required many African workers and was very dangerous to mine. Africans were basically forced to work there because of a 3 day unemployed limit. |
| 1811/1812 war with the xhosa | VOC attached the Xhosa |
| Ungovernable township | Stopped paying water and electricity bills |
| Terrorism act | Allowed for indefinite detention without trial |
| Nelson Mendela | leader of ANC during apartheid president of S.A in 1994 |
| COSATU | congress of south africa trade union |
| Klerk | last president during apartheid |
| total strategy | 1979-1984 funding for education increased, industrial and political interest of the Botha adminstration |
| TRC | Truth and reconciliation Commission gave amnesty for crimes commited from 1960-1994 |
| Verwoerd | South African statesman who instituted the policy of apartheid (1901-1966) |
| wieham report | 1979 recomended that African rights and trade union membership and registration be recognized |
| Steve Biko | leader of BMC |
| Inkatha | Zulu government party |
| Black local Authorities Act | Gave community councils greater powers of administration |
| Botha's "rubicon speech" | August 1985, to the National Party, he would press ahead with reform programmes, which were aimed at consolidating the power his party had, but would not give in to hostile pressure and agitation from abroad |
| Robben Island | Held political prisoners during apartied including Mendela |
| Union of South Africa | The Union of South Africa is the historic predecessor to the present-day state of the Republic of South Africa. It came into being on 31 May 1910, with the previously separate colonies of the Cape, Natal, Transvaal and the Orange Free State, |
| heart of redness Characters | Twin (believer), Twin-Twin (nonbeliever), Zim (Believer, Father of Qukezwa), Bhonco (nonbeliever, father of XX), Qukezwa (lover of Camagu, Free Spirit), Xoliswa Ximiga (schoolteacher, reformer), Camagu (Newcomer, neutral) |
| RDP | South African socio-economic policy framework, implemented by the African National Congress (ANC) government of Nelson Mandela in 1994, after months of discussions, consultations and negotiations between the ANC, its Alliance partners the COSATU and the South African Communist Party |
| Drum | middle class magazine filled with music and culture |
| Shaka | Zulu leader |
| Voortrekker monument | massive monument in honor of the those who made the Great trekk |
| Gold | mineral found in johanasberg |
| Cape colony franchise | any male (white or otherwise) could vote as long as they had property which totaled 25 pounds |
| KhoeKhoe | one of the orginal tribes in South Africa "men of men" |
| Dutch legal status in the Cape | complex set of rules and regulations limiting the social mobility in the Cape |
| treason Trials 1956-61 | a number of ANC and other african leaders were put on trial for treason. all eventually acquitted |
| Amawasha | Zulus who made a living by washing clothes for the cape |
| Jan Smuts | was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948. also advocated segregation between the races and was opposed to the unilateral enfranchisement of the black majority in South Africa, fearing that would lead to the ultimate destruction of Western civilization in the nation |
| Africkaans | Language of the Afriakaner people |
| Mabel Palmer | Got Lily moyo an education in not either an experimental doll |
| "not either an experimental doll | Lily Moyo and Mrs. Palmer. corresponded to reach goals. palmer funded lily's education to ease her conscience. lily didnt live up to palmer's expectations. |
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