Apartheid South Africa: Overcoming (Resistance to) Apartheid
Apartheid South Africa: Overcoming (Resistance to) Apartheid is one of 8 topics in the Grade 11 History CAPS syllabus, covered across 3 lessons on Study Vault. Below are real practice questions from this topic with full worked answers.
Sample practice questions
Easy
1. In which year did the ANC adopt the Programme of Action, shifting toward more confrontational mass resistance methods?
1949
1955
1960
1912
Answer: 1949 — The ANC adopted the Programme of Action in 1949, shifting from moderate petitioning toward mass-based methods including strikes, boycotts and civil disobedience.
Easy
2. What foundational document, adopted at the Congress of the People in June 1955, declared "South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white"?
The Freedom Charter
The Programme of Action
The Population Registration Act
The Atlantic Charter
Answer: The Freedom Charter — The Freedom Charter, adopted at the Congress of the People in Kliptown in June 1955, declared "South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white" and set out a vision of non-racial democracy.
Medium
3. In which year did the Defiance Campaign, in which thousands deliberately broke apartheid laws to be arrested, take place?
Answer: 1952 — The Defiance Campaign of 1952 saw thousands of volunteers, organised jointly by the ANC and South African Indian Congress, deliberately break apartheid laws to be arrested.
