When you are finished watching the video, please go and read the case study below and then complete the quiz on Google Classroom. This Case Study is for marks for your report so please do your best. All work must be done in full sentences even though you are typing it. Use capital letters where necessary and use proper punctuation.
Fatima Meer was born in Durban in 1928. She was classified as Indian. Indians did not have the same rights as whites, but the apartheid laws treated Indians better than black people. At a young age, Fatima’s father taught her that people in South Africa did not have the rights that they should have.
Fatima studied at and graduated from the University of Natal. Very few women who were not white were able to do this at the time.
Over the years, Fatima was involved in many organisations that fought against the apartheid government and that helped poorer communities. For example, she was involved in:
protests against the government, through organising marches and meetings where she would speak out against the apartheid government.
building better understanding and partnerships between the black and Indian communities.
women’s organisations that fought against apartheid and that helped people in the community.
raising funds to build schools in poor communities.
The government tried to stop people like Fatima. They banned her. Banning meant that she was not free to travel wherever she liked, that she could not meet with large groups of people at a time and that she could not send out anything she had written for others to read. The government also put Fatima in jail for about five months, without a trial.
After 1994, Fatima continued to be involved in various organisations and community work in poor areas.
Fatima died in 2010, after she suffered a stroke.
(Based on information from: www.sahistory.org.za, www.choices.edu, www.wikipedia.org, www.wiki.ulwazi.org)
COMPULSORY ACTIVITY
In your workbooks, complete the case study on Fatima Meer by referring to the information above.