Prelude to Apartheid | SS3 History

Overview

Describe the economic developments in south Africa; explain the early attempts to halt the trend leading to apartheid; discuss the failure of the liberal movement in South Africa.

Lesson details

Class: SS3
Subject: History
Theme: Prelude To Apartheid
Duration: 30:12

What you'll learn

Economic developments in South Africa from 1870s e.g. discovery of mineral.
Britain in South Africa and Boer intransigence.
The cause and course of the Boer war.
British public opinion on the Boer war.
Decline of the liberal spirit in South Africa, the Union of 1910 and the exclusion of non-white population from government.

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