South Africa Country Profile

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  1. 4. strike by white mine workers following the chaos of World War I that had to be put down by force
  2. 9. in the 1830s the new British rulers and their progressive policies caused friction among the Boers who wanted to continue
  3. 10. the language spoken by Boers, Dutch descendants of the original white settlers of South Africa dating back hundreds of years
  4. 12. ended the South African War with the Boers winning a significant amount of autonomy to continue their racist policies
  5. 13. increased industrialization and urbanization throughout South Africa, fortunes were made and workers, African and White, unionized to demand a higher standard of living→ leaving South Africa at a crossroads in the 1940s regarding their countries’ future.
  6. 15. Dutch settlers who were searching for independent life outside of the Cape of Good Hope rules and regulations.
  7. 17. winners of South Africa’s first elections, composed of Boers who had just lost the war, but quickly climbed to power in the newly formed government and instituted racist and restrictive policies
  8. 18. formed in 1914 by JBM Hertzog in response to African activism and many Boer perceptions that the South African Party was too conciliatory and not tough enough in their racist policies
  9. 19. major African ethnic and language group of South Eastern South Africa and present day Eastern Cape province, once a formidable nation that was a barrier to Boer settlement
  10. 20. included the Orange Free State, Natal, and Transvaal, all eventually conquered by the British in 1902
  11. 21. the systemic discrimination instituted by the National Party (NP) after the won power in 1924, precursor to Apartheid following World War II
  12. 22. also known as the Boer War fought from 1899-1902 by the British against the Afrikaaner speaking Dutch settlers called Boers, won by the British strategy of starving and capturing civilians
  13. 23. failed attempt by industrialist and Cecil Rhodes to start an uprising against the Boer state of Transvaal, ultimately helped lead to the South African War
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  1. 1. formed in 1912 in response to the racist policies of the South African Party, it would become the political party of Nelson Mandela, the ANC, later in the century
  2. 2. 1000 year movement of central African peoples to the country we now call South Africa, includes the Xhosa and Zulu nations.
  3. 3. leader of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ union aiming to improve the conditions and pay of Black workers
  4. 5. caused significant economic and political effects in South Africa, creating a unified white party, and led to South Africa supporting Britain and her allies in World War II
  5. 6. a kind of Christianity followed by most Boers that is highly conservative, strict, and deterministic
  6. 7. first European settlement in South Africa established in 1652 by the Dutch East India Company
  7. 8. Boer exit from British controlled areas North and East into the interior, outside the influence of the British or formidable Xhosa and Zulu nations
  8. 11. hundred year old ethnic group descended from Dutch Boers and their slaves, mostly San, Khoikhoi or Malay peoples, at times had varying degrees of representation and privilege, but other times suffered immensely under Apartheid
  9. 14. instead of having one capital city, South Africa has 3, Pretoria for administration, Cape Town for legislation, and Bloemfontein for the judiciary, a legacy of South Africa’s British and Boer past
  10. 15. unified the country we now know as South Africa as a largely independent dominion within the British Empire
  11. 16. major African ethnic and language group of eastern South Africa and present day Natal, once a formidable nation that was a barrier to Boer settlement