Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Origins of Apartheid
- The 4 Historical
approaches
- Social History Approach
- Argues that apartheid was caused by conflict and the different
political views of races in South Africa
- Liberal Approach
- Liberals denied that there were economic benefits
to apartheid and that the idea of white supremacy
caused an apartheid state to be established.
- Radical Approach
- They would examine different classes
and their struggles to determine why
society emerged as it was.
- Afrikaner Nationalist Approah
- Argues that Afrikaner Nationalism led to
Apartheid. A significant event that can
support this is the formation of the National
Party in 1914
- The Population of South Africa
- 67.4% Black Africans
- 2.4% Indians
- 8.6% coloured
- 21.6% Whites (40% Afrikaners and 60% English)
- Significant events linked to the
creation of an apartheid state
- The Boer Wars (1889-1902)
- Increased tensions
between the English and
Afrikaners
- The discovery of gold in the Transvaal
- The Act of Union 1910
(which gave the British full
control of South Africa.
Afrikaners were opposed to
this
- The Formation of the National Party
- They aimed to form a segregated society where Afrikaners and whites
were treated better. They also wanted to cut ties with Britain and form a Republic
- Conflict between Afrikaners and
English over territory ,resources
and war
- Prior to 1948, There were forms of segregation conducted
by the United Party against Blacks
- Social Darwinism and Calvinisim
- Social Darwinism
- A philosophy that referred to Charles
Darwin's theories of Natural selection.
Darwinists argued that the 'fittest races'
are superior to weaker ones
- An example of a Social Darwinist
philosophy is Nazism
- Calvinism
- Based on the theory by John Calvin who stated that God created different
races for them to be separated
- Dutch Settlers were very
religious