South Africa Unit Test Study Guide
For the test, you’ll need to know (with approximate dates):
· land and resources
· population/ethnic makeup
· early history/arrival of the Dutch
· Afrikaners attitudes towards race
· British/Cape Colony
· Great Trek
· Transvaal and Orange Free State
· Zulu War
· Shaka Zulu
· Boer War
· independence from Britain
· African National Congress
· 1913 Land Act
· Apartheid laws
· Nelson Mandela
· Desmond Tutu
· Albert Luthuli
· Steve Biko
· Sharpeville Massacre
· Soweto
· forms of international pressure
· F.W. de Klerk
· end of Apartheid
· 1994 election
· Truth and Reconciliation Commission
· Jacob Zuma
· Current challenges