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What are all the provinces in south Africa called?
The nine territories are known as Bantustans.
The region of racial separation in the republic of south africa was known as?
Bantustans were an important part of racist Apartheid legislation. It forced blacks to live on "tribal reservations". This separated them from whites and forced them to realign their nationality from South Africa to the assigned Bantustan. Ten separate Bantustans were established.
According to the South African government what were the locations of the Bantustans based on?
The territories where south African tribal groups had originally lived
What were the TBVC states?
Bantustans/homelands given nominal independence within South Africa during the Apartheid era - Transkei, Bophuthatswana,Venda and Ciskei.
What was the primary motivation behind the creation of the Bantustans?
The primary motivation behind the creation of the Bantustans in South Africa was to separate the black population from the white population and consolidate control over resources and land for the white minority government. This system was part of the apartheid policy, which aimed to maintain racial segregation and divide the population based on ethnicity.
Which events resulted in fewer job and educational opportunities for many black South Africans from the 1960s through the 1980s?
Answer this question… A wave of forced relocations into Bantustans
How did the Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act of 1970 exclude blacks from south African politics?
The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act of 1970 made every black South African, irrespective of actual residence, a citizen of one of the Bantustans, thereby excluding blacks from the South African body.
What were the living conditions in Bantustan?
Living conditions in Bantustans were generally poor, with overcrowded and underdeveloped infrastructure, limited access to basic services like healthcare and education, and high levels of poverty and unemployment. The apartheid government intentionally restricted resources and opportunities in these areas to justify the forced relocation of Black South Africans.
Why is there no Palestine on the map today?
The British Mandate of Palestine was disolved and the independent State of Israel was founded on 78% of that land in 1948, with the remaining 22% under Jordanian and Egyptian occupation. The disappearance of Palestine in 1948 is no different that the disappearance of Rhodesia, New Grenada, and numerous other territories that were given names by colonists that the local inhabitants rejected. However, there is currently a State of Palestine which has de jure control of the Gaza Strip (as of 1993) and some bantustans in the West Bank (as of 2000). This Palestine should be on your map.
Why occurred apartheid?
Apartheid - Afrikaans for 'separateness' or 'apart-hood' was essentially a policy which aimed to keep political control of South Africa in the hands of the white minority.Black South Africans were supposed to exercise their political rights in the rural 'homelands' (or Bantustans) which had little or no influence and comprised a small percentage of South Africa. As most people lived in the rest of South Africa, this meant, of course, that they had no say over their own lives, were rigorously separated and discriminated against residentially; educationally etc (much as in the southern states of the USA at the time).
What happend during apartheid?
POLITICAL CONTROLIn South Africa the ruling parliament is elected solely by white voters. Blacks*, who outnumber whites by five to one, are completely disenfranchised.Under new constitutional proposals for a tricameral parliament, those designated as Coloureds and Indians will be given separate institutions with the whites retaining the monopoly of power. The white chamber will have the largest number of members and will dominate the process of electing a president who will have wide-ranging executive power. The African majority remains totally excluded from this new structure.LANDEighty-seven percent of the land has been designated for whites. Whites determine what small areas within this territory may be occupied by Coloureds, Indians and Africans. The bantustans, which comprise the remaining 13 percent of the land allocated to Africans, are largely barren and poverty stricken. No African may purchase land outside the bantustans.CITIZENSHIPThe minority government is committed to creating a South Africa with no African citizens. Although citizenship for black South Africans has always been precarious, what restricted rights did exist are being withdrawn. The land allocated to the African majority has been divided into ten isolated and fragmented bantustans or "homelands." Already South Africa has declared four of these bantustans "independent," thus stripping eight million people of their South African citizenship. The intention of the white government is to declare all the bantustans independent, arriving at a time when, by stroke of the white pen, every African will be a foreigner. These pseudostates are recognized by no government on earth except the South African regime.REMOVALSThe South African Government has embarked on a policy of massive forced resettlement. The number of black South Africans who have been driven from their homes, removed to less desirable locations, is about equal to the entire white population. During the 35 years the present government has been in power, three million Africans, 800,000 Coloureds and 400,000 Indians have been resettled, and two million more Africans will suffer a similar fate.' When people resist removals, their homes are simply knocked down or bulldozed or burned. Leaders who organize to resist these removals face imprisonment and even death.The South African Government divides the black population into three racial groups: Africans who number about 22 million, Coloureds (mixed race) 2.6 million and Indians 821,000. There are 4.5 million whites.Millions of Africans are forced to become migrant workers, living away from home and family in single sex barracks-like hostels.INFLUX CONTROLThe movement of Africans is strictly regimented by"influx control" which regulates who may enter*"white" South Africa and under what conditions. The number of Africans allowed to remain in the white areas is determined by the needs of the white-owned economy. Unless Africans meet very rigid residence and employment criteria they can be "endorsed out." Africans who are not employed in the white-owned economy are regarded as "superfluous appendages," i.e. women, children, and old people, and are sent to the bantustans.Millions of Africans are migrant workers who must leave their homes in the rural bantustans and travel alone to the cities, where they are employed on yearly contract. They are forced by this system to live much of their married life as if they were single, seeing their families for short visits only once a year. It is illegal for an African lacking the required permits of residence and employment to be in an urban area for longer than 72 hours.PASS LAWSThe rigid system of labor control requires all Africans to carry passbooks which indicate where the individual can legally live and work. They must be kept up-to-date with regular endorsements and are subject on demand to scrutiny by the police. In 1982 more than 200,000 people were arrested under these laws, a twenty-percent increase over 1981.2 A total of at least 6.1 million people were tried for pass law offences between 1967 and 1980.3POLITICAL TRIALS AND IMPRISONMENTSThe right to protest against apartheid or to organize for fundamental change is explicitly prohibited by South African law. Under laws including the Public
How long did apartheid last in South Africa?
The Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act of 1959 created 10 Bantu homelands known as Bantustans. Separating black South Africans from each other enabled the government to claim there was no black majority, and reduced the possibility that blacks would unify into one nationalist organization. This was known as apartheid (official Afrikaans name) or separate development (official English name). The term apartheid became famous in European countries for it's Malapropism to apart&hate
