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 131-072 South Africa Under Apartheid: 1948-1994

Note

Formerly available as 131-291/391. Students who have completed 131-291/391 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Assoc Prof D Philips

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of first year history, see Prerequisites.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

A 1.5-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

This subject studies South African society from 1948 to 1994, with its main focus being the rise and fall of the apartheid society. Students should develop the ability to analyse the systematic enforcement of a racial ideology by the National Party government, and the building up of a police state to back it; the nature of life under apartheid for most South Africans; the various forms of resistance offered to the apartheid state at particular points during this period, especially by Black mass movements; the role of overseas pressures in the anti-apartheid struggle; and the eventual end of apartheid through the negotiations which led to the 1994 election.

Assessment

Class participation and written work totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts

A subject reader will be available.

  • N Worden, The Making of Modern South Africa. (3rd ed) Blackwell Publishers Oxford, 2000.


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