South Africa, 1948–94: from apartheid state to ‘rainbow nation’: Practice Questions

• a.

  To promote an ‘Africa for the Africans’ approach, rejecting multi-racial coalitions

• b.

  To support the implementation of the Freedom Charter’s economic clauses

• c.

  To seek closer ties with the South African Communist Party (SACP)

• d.

  To advocate for the preservation of the British Commonwealth connection

• a.

  By legalizing the PAC and ANC in order to monitor their activities more effectively in the open political sphere.

• b.

  By introducing legislation that allowed for detention without trial and expanding the use of the police force to infiltrate resistance groups.

• c.

  By dismantling the Bantustan system to ensure all racial groups were governed under a single central police authority.

• d.

  By inviting the United Nations to oversee the internal policing of the townships to improve South Africa's international image.

• a.

  It mandated the immediate dissolution of the South African Defence Force (SADF).

• b.

  It resulted in the ANC agreeing to a permanent power-sharing arrangement with no end date.

• c.

  It restored direct negotiations between de Klerk and Mandela, marginalizing the influence of the Inkatha Freedom Party.

• d.

  It established the borders of the nine new provinces before the 1994 elections.

• a.

  It prevented marriage between white people and people of other racial groups to maintain racial purity.

• b.

  It established separate residential and business areas in urban centers for different racial groups.

• c.

  It restricted the movement of black South Africans in urban areas through the use of reference books.

• d.

  It required all inhabitants of South Africa to be classified and registered in accordance with their racial characteristics.

• a.It provided equal funding for industrial development within the homelands and white urban centres
• b.It allowed for the election of independent Black representatives to the National Parliament
• c.It mandated that all urban Black South Africans return to rural areas immediately
• d.It abolished the Natives Representative Council and replaced it with tribal authorities appointed by the government

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Write your answer out first, then check it against the worked solution.

Write your answer out first, then check it against the worked solution.