Unit 2 option 1D: South Africa, 1948–2014: Practice Questions

• a.The systematic replacement of English-speaking officials with Afrikaners in the civil service, police, and judiciary to ensure loyalty to the National Party.
• b.The immediate expulsion of all British residents from South Africa to create a pure Afrikaner republic by 1950.
• c.The mandatory requirement for all South Africans, including those in the homelands, to speak only Afrikaans in public settings.
• d.The redistribution of land from British commercial farmers to Afrikaner peasants to solve the 'poor white' problem.

• a.To create economically self-sufficient industrial zones that would compete with the British Commonwealth.
• b.To provide the ANC with a legitimate sovereign territory to establish a socialist government under UN supervision.
• c.To strip black South Africans of their national citizenship and justify their exclusion from the South African political franchise.
• d.To encourage the total migration of the white population into the interior to protect them from coastal naval blockades.

• a.The automatic seizure of assets from any individual identified as a former member of the Broederbond.
• b.The mandatory imprisonment of all National Party cabinet members who served between 1961 and 1994.
• c.Granting individual amnesty to perpetrators who provided a full and honest disclosure of their politically motivated crimes.
• d.The provision of financial reparations to victims paid for by a direct 'Apartheid Tax' on all white citizens.

• a.The decision by the Soviet Union to launch a full-scale military invasion of the Transvaal to support the ANC.
• b.The sudden discovery that the gold and diamond mines were completely exhausted, leading to total economic collapse.
• c.The voluntary dissolution of the mining industry by Afrikaner businessmen who converted their wealth into agricultural exports.
• d.The impact of international economic sanctions, particularly from the USA in 1985–86, which led to a severe capital flight and a debt crisis.

• a.It was a government-sponsored initiative designed to divide the black opposition by promoting moderate Zulu nationalism.
• b.It acted as a broad non-racial umbrella organization that coordinated internal opposition and effectively acted as a domestic wing for the banned ANC.
• c.It focused exclusively on industrial sabotage and the 'armed struggle' to compensate for the PAC's decline.
• d.It was the first white-only political party to advocate for the immediate abandonment of the tri-cameral parliament.

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