The Power of One
- Afrikaner: A white citizen of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans.
- Boer: White natives speaking afrikaans
- Voortrekkers: were emigrants during the 1830s and 1840s who left the cape colony
- British: natives or inhabitants of Great Britain
- Rooinek: Anglo-Africans are people who live primarily in Sub0Saharan Africa whose first language is English.
- Zulu: the largest South African ethnic group of an estimated 10-11 million people who live mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Kaffi: insulting term for black africans
- Rainmaker: a medicine man who by various rituals and incantations seeks to cause rain
Find out about the history of South Africa:
- Who were the two countries the colonised South Africa and when?
South Africa was colonized by the English and Dutch in the 17th century.
- How did these two groups feel about each other?
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- Give an overview of the Boer War and its impact on South Africa as a country?
The turn-of-the-century Boer War (also known as the South African War) was fought between the British and the Boer people in an unequal power struggle in South Africa as a country was -
Research what Apartheid is:
- Give a definition. What years did Apartheid apply?
Apartheid was a system of legal racial segregation enforced by the National Party government of South Africa between 1948 and 1993.
- How did Apartheid affect the social structure of South Africa?
It deprived black South Africans of basic human rights.
- Find some visual examples of apartheid
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- Why was apartheid abolished?
Apartheid was abolished in order for the National Party to be able to consult a peaceful transtion from White rule to Majority rule which took place in 1994.
