growth of apartheid

Question 1

impact of seperate amenities act and pass laws on daily life

Answer 1

1953
Seperate Amenities:

Removed equality between facilities, reduced contact between whites and non-whites

• Although non-white facilities in principle had to be equal to the white facilities, they were clearly and openly inferior

–>Compared to the Jim Crow laws in the USA

1952 Pass Laws - all pervading
They were required to carry a pass everywhere they went, which could determine whether or no they got arrested in certain circumstances

Question 2

Impact of Bantu Education act

Answer 2

Politicised many black youths who realized that they were being ‘blocked’ from academic potential, realised what voerword was doing to them

ANC tried to organise boycott of Voewoerd’s schools, but the governement responded by simply removing the schooling, which would lead to no education and worser consequences

These black youths later rioted in Soweto

Question 3

Hendrik Verwoerd

policies he wanted to implement

Answer 3

Verwoerd (became prime minister of South Africa 1958), the ‘architect of apartheid’ and the continuation of the system with Vorster

Wanted to solidify the permanence of white rule, relocating blacks into the ‘homelands’

Allowed the homeladns to govern themselves, make it seem like they have control over their society, justified by the fact that they were able to improve independently

Wanted to reduce government spending on apartheid, justified when they were declared ‘independent’ (of course still under their control )

Question 4

Bantu self government act

features, living conditions

Answer 4

1959 - allowed homelands and them to be self ruled

Government able to remove blacks and return them to their ‘ancestral homelands’

Low funding for homelands, lots of poverty and poor living conditions, poor educational standards

Lots of crime and corruption from black leaders in the homelands

Those who evaded relocation received dramatically decreased amount of spending on them – no housing for blacks built in praetoria (certain regions) between 1967-1976

Poverty continued (80% in homelands), no economic success