Zimbabwe and South Africa

This lesson aligns to the following course essential questions:

Essential Question #5- How have Governments formed and evolved over time in Africa?

Essential Question #9- How have Economic Systems and Trade impacted Africa?

World Regions and Cultures 11- Zimbabwe (126-130)

1. ______________ percent of the people are Shona
2. ______________ percent are Ndebele
3. The British called the colony ______________
4. Britain took steps to return Rhodesia to Black rule, but ______________ Rhodesians declared independence and continued their cruel ways
5. Whites made up 5% of the population.  Now 99% is made up by the two ethnic groups listed above.  Why has the white population dwindled?
1. ______________
2. ______________
6. The ______________ imposed economic sanctions
7. Rhodesia was renamed ______________ when Blacks were restored to power
8. ______________ Mugabe became leader in 1980 was just deposed in 2017.  He died September of 2019.
9. Mugabe started ______________  redistribution
1. This means the white farmers were replaced with ______________ farmers
2. ______________ was the result because the replacements did not known how to farm
3. ______________ decline was very harsh
10. Mugabe muzzles the ______________
1. He banned a video of him tripping on a stage

South Africa (139-142)

11.  Nelson ________________ spent 27 years in prison because he was against the pro-white and anti-black leadership of South Africa
12. Blacks made up ________________ percent of South Africa’s population
13. Whites made up ________________ percent
14. “Colored or mixed- ________________ percent
15. “Asians”- ________________ percent
16. The racial division and separation was called ________________ or “apartness”
17. Apartheid policies
1. Non-whites could not ________________ or serve in government
2. Non-whites had to have ________________ on them at all times
3. Blacks had to live in “Tribal Homelands” and men had to live in hostels while working away from their ________________
4. Inter-racial relationships were ________________
5. All public places were ________________
18. Mandela’s ANC or ________________ National Congress was under attack
19. In 1976 in Soweto, a suburb of Johannesburg, students protested a law required all to learn Afrikaans, the language of the originally Dutch settlers.  ________________-speaking South Africans were always called Afrikaners
20. F.W. de Klerk, the last white South African leader gave way to international pressure and lifted many of the apartheid laws
21. Nelson Mandela was in prison for ______________ years
22. Nelson Mandela was elected in the first all-races election.  Mandela passed away in late 2013
23. Mandela tried to establish ______________ and fairness by law
24. Note- missed in other notes- Africa embraces the same ________________-Grade system as the US for education

Film clips:

·         Blood Diamond scene

·         1990- Mandela released from Prison (Days that Shook the World)

·         “Nelson Mandela Dead: The True Story behind Invictus” (Youtube.com)

Quiz #2 is 2/4- Quiz #2 Study guide- Quiz #2 of the 3rd quarter will be an Africa Map quiz on the following countries:

• Liberia
• Mali
• Burkina Faso
• Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
• Ghana
• Togo
• Benin
• Nigeria
• Niger
• Chad
• Sudan
• South Sudan
• Equatorial Guinea
• Cameroon