total strategy and total onslaught Flashcards Preview

SA: Apartheid > total strategy and total onslaught > Flashcards

Flashcards in total strategy and total onslaught Deck (20)
Loading flashcards...
1
Q

total strategy

A

the apartheid government’s response to the perceived threat of ‘total onslaught’

2
Q

total onslaught

A

threat posed to SA by the USSR

blamed revolutionary forces within SA for supporting and fuelling this threat

3
Q

total strategy justifications

A

win western support

justify repression of blacks

4
Q

State Security Council

A

set up in 1882 - it became almost like a parallel government

5
Q

army

A

Botha greatly increased the size - since 1972 he introduced conscription

6
Q

children and army

A

200,000 children went on army camps

7
Q

SADF

A

SA defence force in 1981 numbered over 250,000 with 250,000 in reserve

8
Q

by 1980

A

SA was the last white government in southern africa

Mozambique became independent in 1976 and Zimbabwe in 1980

9
Q

police state

A

introduced, but despite this, violence and opposition was increasing

10
Q

hostile neighbours

A

wanted to support ANC and were bases for the guerrillas

11
Q

sanctions

A

businesses withdrawing, almost total sporting boycott and rugby tour cancelled

12
Q

black population

A

was growing and now outnumbered the whites 1:8

13
Q

soweto

A

showed repression wasn’t enough

14
Q

1984

A

National Union of Mineworkers

wanted pay rise and legally striked

15
Q

influx control

A

hadn’t prevented almost 1/2 blacks living in the cities

16
Q

1981

A

right wing conservatives formed - made NP lose support

17
Q

state sanctioned violence

A

no government assassinations had been documented since 1960-73, but there were at least 30-40 by the SADF and police

this showed a huge increase in state violence after 1979

18
Q

media control

A

Inquest Act- prohibited information of death in detention from being published

Police Act- allegations of brutality by police were now outlawed

19
Q

ANC attacks

A

in 1983 alone, there were 42 ANC attacks on government installations

20
Q

repression

A

wrecked incredible damage on the country and didn’t ensure the peace and security