POLS 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: F. W. De Klerk, Black Consciousness Movement, Allister Sparks

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3000
• Professor: Ian Spears

Document Summary

Choosen race- might take measures to remain superior. Afrikans ( white africans)- see themselves as hard working and carved themselves out of a harsh environment, descendants from dutch,french and german migrants. Afrikanners are dominante until 1994 when black mahoriy rule took over. Apartheid- whits thought the blacks would led them to subjecation so they decided to subject the blacks instead. Then national party would have been the only party that south africans would have knows, apartheid was the only system they would have known, well institutionalized, Many laws instituted in south africa to suppress blacks ( carry passes,social segregation) Stephen biko- 1946-1977 leader of south africans black consciousness movement, called for something called azania ( used to describe south africa) this sparked world wide condemnation, more militant than mandela. Fw de klerk in (cid:883)99(cid:882), (cid:498)general election on septemeber 6th 1989 placed out country.