South Africa Begins Separate Development System
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Segregation, Desegregation, Apartheid, Laws, Acts, Legislation, Human Rights, Discrimination, Prejudice
- Curriculum: African History
- Geographical Location: South Africa
- Date: June 21, 1951
Article abstract: The Bantu Authorities Act, one of several key apartheid laws passed after the National Party victory of 1948, began to implement the “grand design” for separate development in the Bantu Homelands.
Summary of Event
Before the watershed election of 1948, South Africans of non-European ancestry had long experienced significant forms of legal and social discrimination. With the end of slavery in 1833, pass laws continued to require blacks (also called “Natives” or “Bantu”) to carry identification cards. The Native Land Acts of...
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