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Flashcards by Reuben Veysey-Smith, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Reuben Veysey-Smith
almost 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Liberal opposition | In 1959 11 Liberal MP's formed the progressive party, In 1974 the progressive party increased their seats from 1 to 7, UP also got won 41 seats with 363,000 votes, however splintered after 1978 |
| Troubles in the Bantustans | The government pushed forward with Bantustans, they were still heavily reliable on SA for revenues |
| Resistance | After buthelezi refused to hold independence elections, large military expenditure became the norm; this helped maintain apartheid but also had huge cost |
| Verligtes | Recognised need for better training for blacks to increase work relations |
| Verkramptes | Wanted rapid implementation of separate development, Vorster sided with this |
| Information scandal | Vorster gave Connie mulder a large amount of public money to influence propaganda in and outside of country, government were shocked stepped down in 1978 replaced by Botha |
| Economic and population crisis | Economy started to stagflate, and African population rose from 11-29 million putting huge pressure on apartheid |
| 1973 oil crisis | Sent the world into recession, National Party set up SASOL only provided 1/3 of SA needs and was very expensive |
| Example of population growth | In Kwandebele population boomed from 32,000 in 1972 to 200,000 in 1985; PUTCO bus company 1975 had two busses, 263 in 1984; workers woke up at 4 to get a 100mile bus ride to Pretoria |
| Problem of population growth | During early 1980's pass laws were successfully challenged in court, combined with stagnation the growing urban migration was un-changeable |
| Botha and the economy | De-regulated sports teams, gave blacks long term property leases and massively increased promises of working security. These were huge ideological changes |
| Constitutional changes | He created presidents council 1980 with coloureds, Indiand and whites; making himself a tricameral presidents Did very little for blacks created very biased black councils |
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