Unit JUST SAY NO

1. Unit JUST SAY NO Initial activities CRY FREEDOM Previous knowledge activities (before reading activities) + Test previous ideas + Encourage oral expression

2. page 2 on pack Initial questions • Physical features: • Climate: • Natural resources: • Industrial & agricultural activities: - southernmost region of Africa - long coastline 2,500 km - the 25th-largest country in the world - The interior of South Africa is a vast, flat, and not very populated. - drier towards the northwest along the Namib desert. - In contrast, the eastern coastline is well-watered, which produces a climate similar to the tropics. clothing and textiles sector, electronics sector, construction sector, fertilizer production, synthetic fuels production industry: oil and petrochemicals from coal, serve 40% of the nation's motor fuels demand. • Flora and fauna - gold (& other minerals) • export farming products and sugar, grapes, citrus, nectarines, • It is the eighth largest wine producer in the world, and the eleventh largest producer of sunflower seed. • subsistence agriculture in rural areas • metal products and engineering sector • only African state to produce pulp and paper

3. page 2 on pack Initial questions What’s the flag? How is SA usually called? • The Diamond Land. • The Rainbow Warrior. • The Rainbow Nation. • Mandela’s Land.

4. page 2 on pack Initial questions 2. Peoples of South Africa: Spoken languages: The African population is made up of four broad groupings: The Nguni, comprising the Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swazi people. The Sotho-Tswana, who include the Southern, Northern and Western Sotho (Tswana people). The Tsonga. The Venda. White South Africans include: The Afrikaners, descendants of Dutch, German and French Huguenot who came to the country from the 17th century onwards. English-speakers, descendants of settlers from the British Isles who came to the country from the late 18th century onwards. Immigrants and descendents of immigrants from the rest of Europe, including Greeks, Portuguese, Eastern European Jews, Hungarians and Germans.

5. page 2 on pack Initial questions 3. What is apartheid? Apartheid (Afrikaans apartness) was a system of legal racial segregation enforced by the National Party government of South Africa between 1948 and 1994. The rights of the majority 'non-white' inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and the minority, the white people, ruled the country. Racial segregation in South Africa began in colonial times. However, apartheid as an official policy was introduced following the general election of 1948. New legislation classified inhabitants into racial groups ("black", "white", "coloured", and "Indian"),[1] and residential areas were segregated, sometimes by means of forced removals. From 1970, black people were deprived of their citizenship, legally becoming citizens of one of ten tribally based self-governing homelands called bantustans, four of which became nominally independent states. The government segregated education, medical care, beaches, and other public services, and provided black people with services inferior to those of white people.[2] Apartheid sparked significant internal resistance and violence as well as a long trade embargo against South Africa.[3] Since the 1950s, a series of popular uprisings and protests were met with the banning of opposition and imprisoning of anti-apartheid leaders. As unrest spread and became more violent, state organizations responded with increasing repression and state-sponsored violence. Reforms to apartheid in the 1980s failed to quell the mounting opposition, and in 1990 President Frederik Willem de Klerk began negotiations to end apartheid, culminating in multi-racial democratic elections in 1994, which were won by the African National Congress under Nelson Mandela. The vestiges of apartheid still shape South African politics and society.[4]

6. page 2 on pack Initial questions 4. What is Freedom Day? When does it take place? Freedom Day is a South African public holiday. It celebrates freedom and commemorates the first post-apartheidelections held on that day in 1994. They were the first national elections in South Africa in which the right to vote did not depend upon race. It is celebrated on April 27.

7. page 2 on pack Initial questions 5. Examples of racial segregation: Classification of residents in South Africa into four racial groups: "black", "white", "colored", and "Indian" Different regions according to different races: People were forced to live in their corresponding regions and the action of passing the boundaries without a permit was noted as illegal. In public area, like hospitals, universities and parks, people were separated according to particular races. Also segregated national education.

8. page 2 on pack Initial questions 6. First black SA president? Current president? Jacob Zuma

9. page 3 on pack MAP QUIZ • Capital: • Ocean to the west: • Ocean to the south-east: • Bordering countries to the north: • Country within SA? • 6. Country (almost) surrounded by SA? Johannesburg Atlantic ocean Indian ocean Namibia, Botswana , Zimbabwe and Mozambique Lesotho Swaziland

10. MAP QUIZ page 3 on pack Locate towns and cities on the map: