Today we went over our semester test times. Semester tests are next week already! We started on our Africa projects. Trey's powerpoint was on South Africa and Apartheid. It was legal racial discrimination against blacks between 1948 to 1994. The National Party was the governing party of South Africa from June 1948 until May 1994. Laws of Apartheid include no black and white marrages, no mixed marrages, forced removal of black white and asians. Pressure from the inside, western nations and economy helped end it. MaKayla's powerpoint was on Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918. He went to college at Wesleyan in Fort Beaufort. Then he went to For Hare University. He was asked to leave the University due to boycott of the students' Representative Council. He worked as a guard at a mine and clerk at a law firm. IN 1943 he joined the African National Congress as an activist. On August 5, 1962 he was arrested for living on the run for seventeen months. In 1976 there were proests going on and 600 students died during them. On February 11, 1990 he was released from prison after 27 years. In 1991 he became president of the African National Congress. Black south africans could vote free for the first time on April 26, 1994. In 1994 the ANC won 252 to 400 seats in the national assembly. Dani, Brittany and Cheryl's topic was Rwanda Genocide. In 1994 a genocide happened in the small country of Rwanda. About 800,000 people died in 100 days. In 1994 there were about 7 million people in Rwanda and 3 different ethnic groups. Long before that time, Rwanda was a part of Belgium. In 1962 Rwanda became independent. The Tutsis were favoried by Belgium, but there were more Hutus than Tutsis. The Germans and Belgiums favoried the Tutsis because they had more 'white' characteristsic, like height and lips. The Hutus lead a major attack the Tutsis in 1959. They then took over Rwanda. In April 1994 Rwanda's president, a Hutu, was in a plane that got shot down and was killed. It was believed the Tutsis were shooting at the plane. The whole country broke out into a mess and started slaughtering people. The radio stations were broadcasting things about going after the Tutsis. It didn't matter if you were a man, woman, or a child, everyone was attacked. The RPF was able to call cease fire after 100 days of the genocide. Afterwards about 2 million Hutus ran away to Congo. The main effect was that all those people died. The United states decided they didn't want to be majorly involved in the genocide. They tried to help cease fire. United Nations troups didn't arrive in Rwanda until July, and the genocide had ended. Major people involed in the genocide were the Tutsis, the Hutus, the Rwanda Patriotic Front, the United Nations Assistance Method for Rwanda, and France.
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