CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Check your guess with this news item (from the BBC) of 10 May 1994. Nelson Mandela has become South Africa’s first Black President after more than three centuries of White rule. Mr Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC ) party won 252 of the 400 seats in the first democratic elections of South Africa’s history.

Detailed explanation-2: -Increased European encroachment ultimately led to the colonisation and occupation of South Africa by the Dutch. The Cape Colony remained under Dutch rule until 1795 before it fell to the British Crown, before reverting back to Dutch Rule in 1803 and again to British occupation in 1806.

Detailed explanation-3: -The firm and rigorous establishment of British colonial rule throughout the region (with the exception of Portuguese East Africa, or Mozambique) and nineteenth-century attitudes espousing racial inequality after World War I solidify into South African apartheid.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fusion government formed with General Hertzog as prime minister and General Smuts as deputy prime minister.

Detailed explanation-5: -South Africa’s white population increased to over 3, 408, 000 by 1965, reached 4, 050, 000 in 1973, and peaked at 5, 044, 000 in 1990.