Apartheid in South Africa 1960–1994
MOD-APART is worth about 25 marks out of 100 in recent HSC Modern History papers. Practise 15 exam-style questions (multiple choice, short answer) with instant marking and a worked solution for every question.
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South Africa in 1960 and the apartheid system, Sharpeville and the turn to armed struggle, Rivonia, Black Consciousness and Soweto, Botha's total strategy and mass resistance, international responses and the negotiated end of apartheid to 1994.
- 1What you need to know
- 2South Africa in 1960 and the apartheid system
- 3Resistance, 1960–1979
- 4Repression and ‘total strategy’, 1978–1989
- 5Mass resistance in the 1980s
- 6International responses
- 7The end of apartheid, 1989–1994
- 8Interpretations
- 9Answering the parts of a Section IV question
- 10Common mistakes
- 11Exam tips
- 12Links to other topics
Example questions
Example 1 · 1 mark · multiple choice
What happened at Sharpeville on 21 March 1960?
- AStudents protested against teaching in Afrikaans
- BPolice fired on an anti-pass protest, killing 69 people
- CNelson Mandela was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment
- DThe ANC launched its first armed attack on a police station
Example 2 · 1 mark · multiple choice
What was the outcome of the Rivonia Trial (1963–1964)?
- AThe accused were banished to remote homelands
- BMandela was acquitted and went into exile in Zambia
- CMandela and others were jailed for life for sabotage
- DThe accused were sentenced to death and executed
Example 3 · 15 marks · short answer
Assess the reasons for the end of apartheid in South Africa by 1994.
(15 marks)
Answers and worked solutions appear when you practise these questions.
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