Botha's 'Total strategy' in SA

Question 1

Botha’s thinking

Answer 1

• Started a series of reforms designed to meet the demands of big businesses
• Claim to create a black middle-class, in order to stop black protest being so effective
• Some apartheid restrictions would be removed, but white would remain firmly in control

Question 2

“Change” in SA, but with careful thinking.

Answer 2

• Trade unions for black workers were legalised.
• Job oppurtunities increased.
• Investment in black education increased
• Housing and travel restrictions relaxed; property laws, influx controls, and pass laws were relaxed. Pass laws eventually abolished in 1986 = allowed black people to move around freely.
• More racially mixed areas
• Housing improve: urban foundation was set up with big businesses to build a new and better houses for Black Townships
• Ending ‘petty Apartheid: mix marriages was repealed and local authorities were encouraged to relax the ‘separate authorities act’ to allow black access to better hotels, cinemas, beaches and restaurants in white areas.