Topic 1

Nelson Mandela & the ANC

1) What is apartheid?
2) What is the ANC?
3) What was Nelson Mandela's role in the Umkhonto we Sizwe?
4) How was the Umkhonto we Sizwe wing different from the general ANC?
5) What special award did Mandela receive in 1993?
6) What historic event took place in South Africa in 1994?

Common Questions: Focus on the Koeberg Nuclear power plant attack and Umkhonto we Sizwe
1) Who was the group?
2) Where were they from?
3) What was their motivation? (cause?)
4) What did they do? (the Act?)
5) What happened immediately? (the result of the Act?) (# of deaths or casualties or type of damage)
6) What, if any, were the long-term outcomes of the Act?
7) Did the end justify the means? (did the outcome make the act okay?)
8) Do you believe this was an act of terrorism or a fight for freedom?

List of references:

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1.     http://www.anc.org.za/kids/main.php?include=../docs/kidstxt/2010/kidstxt0316a.html

2.     http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mk/mk-history.html

3.     http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=79&art_id=vn20060311105842482C822914&set_id=1

4.     http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/manifesto-mk.html

5.     http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/or/or71-4.html

6.     http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/or/or65-1.html

7.     http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1993/mandela-lecture.html

8.     http://legend54.blogspot.com/2010/01/nelson-mandela.html http://www.freedomarchives.org/audio_samples/Nelson_Mandela.html

9.     http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/nelson-mandela-59.php

10.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_South_Africa

11.  http://www.worldstatesmen.org/South_African_homelands.html

12. http://www.speedysnail.com/textuary/apartheid.html --> International Moves Against Apartheid