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.