South Africa

South Africa (see map) is a country blessed with an abundance of natural resources including fertile
farmlands and unique mineral resources. South African mines are world leaders in the production of
diamonds and gold as well as strategic metals such as platinum. The climate is mild, reportedly
resembling the San Francisco bay area weather more than anywhere in the world.
South Africa was colonized by the English and Dutch in the seventeenth century. English domination of
the Dutch descendents (known as Boers or Afrikaners) resulted in the Dutch establishing the new
colonies of Orange Free State and Transvaal. The discovery of diamonds in these lands around 1900
resulted in an English invasion which sparked the Boer War. Following independence from England, an
uneasy power-sharing between the two groups held sway until the 1940's, when the Afrikaner National
Party was able to gain a strong majority. Strategists in the National Party invented apartheid as a means
to cement their control over the economic and social system. Initially, aim of the apartheid was to
maintain white domination while extending racial separation. Starting in the 60's, a plan of ``Grand
Apartheid'' was executed, emphasizing territorial separation and police repression.
With the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was institutionalized. Race laws
touched every aspect of social life, including a prohibition of marriage between non-whites and whites,
and the sanctioning of ``white-only'' jobs. In 1950, the Population Registration Act required that all
South Africans be racially classified into one of three categories: white, black (African), or colored (of
mixed decent). The coloured category included major subgroups of Indians and Asians. Classification
into these categories was based on appearance, social acceptance, and descent. For example, a white
person was defined as ``in appearance obviously a white person or generally accepted as a white
person.'' A person could not be considered white if one of his or her parents were non-white. The
determination that a person was ``obviously white'' would take into account ``his habits, education, and
speech and deportment and demeanor.'' A black person would be of or accepted as a member of an
African tribe or race, and a colored person is one that is not black or white. The Department of Home
Affairs (a government bureau) was responsible for the classification of the citizenry. Non-compliance
with the race laws were dealt with harshly. All blacks were required to carry ``pass books'' containing
fingerprints, photo and information on access to non-black areas.
In 1951, the Bantu Authorities Act established a basis
for ethnic government in African reserves, known as
``homelands.'' These homelands were independent
states to which each African was assigned by the
government according to the record of origin (which
was frequently inaccurate). All political rights,
including voting, held by an African were restricted to
the designated homeland. The idea was that they
would be citizens of the homeland, losing their
citizenship in South Africa and any right of
involvement with the South African Parliament which
held complete hegemony over the homelands. From
1976 to 1981, four of these homelands were created, denationalizing nine million South Africans. The
homeland administrations refused the nominal independence, maintaining pressure for political rights
within the country as a whole. Nevertheless, Africans living in the homelands needed passports to enter
South Africa: aliens in their own country.
In 1953, the Public Safety Act and the Criminal Law Amendment Act were passed, which empowered the
government to declare stringent states of emergency and increased penalties for protesting against or
supporting the repeal of a law. The penalties included fines, imprisonment and whippings. In 1960, a
large group of blacks in Sharpeville refused to carry their passes; the government declared a state of
emergency. The emergency lasted for 156 days, leaving 69 people dead and 187 people wounded.
Wielding the Public Safety Act and the Criminal Law Amendment Act, the white regime had no intention
of changing the unjust laws of apartheid.
Apartheid (Afrikaans pronunciation: [partit]; an Afrikaans
[1]
word meaning 'the state of being apart',
literally 'apart-hood'
[2][3]
) was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation by
the National Party (NP) governments, the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, under which the rights of the
majority black inhabitants were curtailed and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained. Apartheid was
developed after World War II by the Afrikaner-dominated National Party and Broederbond organisations and
was practised also in South West Africa, which was administered by South Africa under a League of
Nations mandate (revoked in 1966 via United Nations Resolution 2145),
[4]
until it gained independence
as Namibia in 1990.
[5]

Racial segregation in South Africa began in colonial times under Dutch rule.
[6]
Apartheid as an official
policy was introduced following the general election of 1948. Legislation classified inhabitants into four racial
groups, "black", "white", "coloured", and "Indian", with Indian and coloured divided into several sub-
classifications,
[7]
and residential areas were segregated, sometimes by forced removals. Non-white
political representation was abolished in 1970, and starting in that year black people were deprived of
their citizenship, legally becoming citizens of one of ten tribally based self-governing homelands called bantustans,
four of which became nominally independent states. The government segregated education, medical care,
beaches, and other public services, and provided black people with services inferior to those of white
people.
[8]

Apartheid sparked significant internal resistance and violence, and a long arms and trade embargo against South
Africa.
[9]
Since the 1950s, a series of popular uprisings and protests was met with the banning of
opposition and imprisoning of anti-apartheid leaders. As unrest spread and became more effective and
militarised, state organisations responded with repression and violence. Along with the sanctions placed
on South Africa by the international community, this made it increasingly difficult for the government to
maintain the regime.
Apartheid reforms in the 1980s failed to quell the mounting opposition, and in 1990 President Frederik
Willem de Klerk began negotiations to end apartheid,
[10]
culminating in multi-racial democratic elections in 1994, won
by the African National Congress under Nelson Mandela. The vestiges of apartheid still shape South African politics
and society. Although the official abolishing of apartheid occurred in 1990 with repeal of the last of the
remaining apartheid laws, the end of apartheid is widely regarded as arising from the 1994 democratic
general elections
Under the 1806 Cape Articles of Capitulation the new British colonial rulers were required to respect
previous legislation enacted under Roman Dutch law
[11]
and this led to a separation of the law in South Africa
from English Common Law and a high degree of legislative autonomy. The governors and assemblies that
governed the legal process in the various colonies of South Africa were launched on a different and
independent legislative path from the rest of the British Empire.
In the days of slavery, slaves required passes to travel away from their masters. In 1797 the Landdrost
and Heemraden of Swellendam and Graaff-Reinett (the Dutch colonial governing authority) extended pass
laws beyond slaves and ordained that all Khoikhoi (Hottentots) moving about the country for any purpose
should carry passes.
[6]
This was confirmed by the British Colonial government in 1809 by the Hottentot
Proclamation, which decreed that if a Khoikhoi were to move they would need a pass from their master
or a local official.
[6]
Ordinance No. 49 of 1828 decreed that prospective black immigrants were to be
granted passes for the sole purpose of seeking work.
[6]
These passes were to be issued for Coloureds and
Khoikhoi, but not for other Africans, but other Africans were still forced to carry passes.
The United Kingdom's Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. IV c. 73) abolished slavery throughout the British
Empire and overrode the Cape Articles of Capitulation. To comply with the act the South African
legislation was expanded to include Ordinance 1 in 1835, which effectively changed the status of slaves
to indentured labourers. This was followed by Ordinance 3 in 1848, which introduced an indenture
system for Xhosa that was little different from slavery. The various South African colonies passed
legislation throughout the rest of the nineteenth century to limit the freedom of unskilled workers, to
increase the restrictions on indentured workers and to regulate the relations between the races.
The Franchise and Ballot Act of 1892 instituted limits based on financial means and education to the
black franchise,
[12]
and the Natal Legislative Assembly Bill of 1894 deprived Indians of the right to vote.
[13]
In
1905 the General Pass Regulations Act denied blacks the vote, limited them to fixed areas and
inaugurated the infamous Pass System.
[14]
The Asiatic Registration Act (1906) required all Indians to
register and carry passes.
[15]
In 1910 the Union of South Africa was created as a self-governing dominion, which
continued the legislative programme: the South Africa Act (1910) enfranchised whites, giving them
complete political control over all other racial groups while removing the right of blacks to sit in
parliament,
[16]
the Native Land Act (1913) prevented blacks, except those in the Cape, from buying land
outside "reserves",
[16]
the Natives in Urban Areas Bill (1918) was designed to force blacks into
"locations",
[17]
the Urban Areas Act (1923) introducedresidential segregation and provided cheap labour for
industry led by white people, the Colour Bar Act (1926) prevented blacks from practising skilled trades,
the Native Administration Act (1927) made the British Crown, rather than paramount chiefs, the supreme
head over all African affairs,
[18]
the Native Land and Trust Act (1936) complemented the 1913 Native Land
Act and, in the same year, the Representation of Natives Act removed previous black voters from the
Cape voters' roll and allowed them to elect three whites to Parliament.
[19]
One of the first pieces of
segregating legislation enacted by Jan Smuts' United Party government was the Asiatic Land Tenure Bill (1946), which
banned land sales to Indians.
[20]

The United Party government began to move away from the rigid enforcement of segregationist laws
during World War II.
[21]
Amid fears integration would eventually lead to racial assimilation, the legislature
established the Sauer Commission to investigate the effects of the United Party's policies. The commission
concluded that integration would bring about a "loss of personality" for allracial groups.
The election of 1948[edit]
Main article: South African general election, 1948
In the run-up to the 1948 elections, the main Afrikaner nationalist party, the Herenigde Nasionale
Party (Reunited National Party) under the leadership of Protestant cleric Daniel Francois
Malancampaigned on its policy of apartheid.
[22][23]
The NP narrowly defeated Smuts's United Party and
formed a coalition government with another Afrikaner nationalist party, the Afrikaner Party. Malan
became the first apartheid prime minister, and the two parties later merged to form the National
Party (NP).
Apartheid legislation
NP leaders argued that South Africa did not comprise a single nation, but was made up of four distinct
racial groups: white, black, coloured and Indian. These groups were split into 13 nations or racial
federations. White people encompassed the English and Afrikaans language groups; the black populace
was divided into ten such groups.
The state passed laws that paved the way for "grand apartheid", which was centred on separating races
on a large scale, by compelling people to live in separate places defined by race. This strategy was in part
adopted from "left-over" British rule that separated different racial groups after they took control of the
Boer republics in the Anglo-Boer war. This created the black-only "townships" or "locations", where
blacks were relocated to their own towns. In addition, "petty apartheid" laws were passed. The principal
apartheid laws were as follows.
[24]

The first grand apartheid law was the Population Registration Act of 1950, which formalised racial
classification and introduced an identity card for all persons over the age of 18, specifying their racial
group.
[25]
Official teams or Boards were established to come to a conclusion on those people whose race
was unclear.
[26]
This caused difficulty, especially for coloured people, separating their families when
members were allocated different races.
[27]

The second pillar of grand apartheid was the Group Areas Act of 1950.
[28]
Until then, most settlements
had people of different races living side by side. This Act put an end to diverse areas and determined
where one lived according to race. Each race was allotted its own area, which was used in later years as
a basis of forced removal.
[29]
The Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act of 1951 allowed the government to
demolish black shanty town slums and forced white employers to pay for the construction of housing for
those black workers who were permitted to reside in cities otherwise reserved for whites.
[30]

The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949 prohibited marriage between persons of different races,
and the Immorality Act of 1950 made sexual relations with a person of a different race acriminal
offence.
Under the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act of 1953, municipal grounds could be reserved for a
particular race, creating, among other things, separate beaches, buses, hospitals, schools and
universities. Signboards such as "whites only" applied to public areas, even including park
benches.
[31]
Blacks were provided with services greatly inferior to those of whites, and, to a lesser
extent, to those of Indian and coloured people.
[8]

Further laws had the aim of suppressing resistance, especially armed resistance, to apartheid.
The Suppression of Communism Act of 1950 banned any party subscribing to Communism. The act
defined Communism and its aims so sweepingly that anyone who opposed government policy risked
being labelled as a Communist. Since the law specifically stated that Communism aimed to disrupt racial
harmony, it was frequently used to gag opposition to apartheid. Disorderly gatherings were banned, as
were certain organisations that were deemed threatening to the government.
Education was segregated by the 1953 Bantu Education Act, which crafted a separate system of
education for African students and was designed to prepare black people for lives as a labouring
class.
[32]
In 1959 separate universities were created for black, coloured and Indian people. Existing
universities were not permitted to enroll new black students. The Afrikaans Medium Decree of 1974
required the use of Afrikaans and English on an equal basis in high schools outside the homelands.
[33]

The Bantu Authorities Act of 1951 created separate government structures for blacks and whites and
was the first piece of legislation to support the government's plan of separate development in
the Bantustans. The Promotion of Black Self-Government Act of 1959 entrenched the NP policy of
nominally independent "homelands" for blacks. So-called "selfgoverning Bantu units" were proposed,
which would have devolved administrative powers, with the promise later of autonomy and self-
government. It also abolished the seats of white representatives of Africans and removed from the rolls
the few blacks still qualified to vote. The Bantu Investment Corporation Act of 1959 set up a mechanism
to transfer capital to the homelands in order to create employment there. Legislation of 1967 allowed
the government to stop industrial development in "white" cities and redirect such development to the
"homelands". The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970 marked a new phase in the Bantustan
strategy. It changed the status of blacks to citizens of one of the ten autonomous territories. The aim
was to ensure a demographic majority of white people within South Africa by having all ten Bantustans
achieve full independence.
Interracial contact in sport was frowned upon, but there were no segregatory sports laws.
The government tightened pass laws compelling blacks to carry identity documents, to prevent the
immigration of blacks from other countries. To reside in a city, blacks had to be in employment there.
Until 1956 women were for the most part excluded from these pass requirements, as attempts to
introduce pass laws for women were met with fierce resistance.
[34]

Disenfranchisement of coloured voters[edit]
Main article: Coloured vote constitutional crisis
In 1950, D F Malan announced the NP's intention to create a Coloured Affairs Department.
[35]
J.G.
Strijdom, Malan's successor as Prime Minister, moved to strip voting rights from black and coloured
residents of the Cape Province. The previous government had introduced the Separate Representation
of Voters Bill into Parliament in 1951; however, four voters, G Harris, W D Franklin, W D Collins and
Edgar Deane, challenged its validity in court with support from the United Party.
[36]
The Cape Supreme
Court upheld the act, but reversed by the Appeal Court, finding the act invalid because a two-thirds
majority in a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament was needed in order to change the entrenched
clauses of the Constitution.
[37]
The government then introduced the High Court of Parliament Bill (1952),
which gave Parliament the power to overrule decisions of the court.
[38]
The Cape Supreme Court and the
Appeal Court declared this invalid too.
[39]

In 1955 the Strijdom government increased the number of judges in the Appeal Court from five to 11,
and appointed pro-Nationalist judges to fill the new places.
[40]
In the same year they introduced the
Senate Act, which increased the Senate from 49 seats to 89.
[41]
Adjustments were made such that the NP
controlled 77 of these seats.
[42]
The parliament met in a joint sitting and passed the Separate
Representation of Voters Act in 1956, which transferred coloured voters from the common voters' roll in
the Cape to a new coloured voters' roll.
[43]
Immediately after the vote, the Senate was restored to its
original size. The Senate Act was contested in the Supreme Court, but the recently enlarged Appeal
Court, packed with government-supporting judges, upheld the act, and also the Act to remove coloured
voters.
[44]

The 1956 law allowed Coloureds to elect four whites to Parliament, but a 1969 law abolished those seats
and stripped Coloureds of their right to vote. Since Asians had never been allowed to vote, this resulted
in whites being the sole enfranchised group.
Under the homeland system, the government attempted to divide South Africa into a number of
separate states, each of which was supposed to develop into a separate nation-state for a different
ethnic group.
[52]

Territorial separation was not a new institution. There were, for example, the "reserves" created under
the British government in the nineteenth century. Under apartheid, 13 per cent of the land was reserved
for black homelands, a relatively small amount compared to the total population, and generally in
economically unproductive areas of the country. The Tomlinson Commission of 1954 justified apartheid
and the homeland system, but stated that additional land ought to be given to the homelands, a
recommendation that was not carried out.
[
citation needed
]

When Verwoerd became Prime Minister in 1958, the policy of "separate development" came into being,
with the homeland structure as one of its cornerstones. Verwoerd came to believe in the granting of
independence to these homelands. The government justified its plans on the basis that "(the)
government's policy is, therefore, not a policy of discrimination on the grounds of race or colour, but a
policy of differentiation on the ground of nationhood, of different nations, granting to each self-
determination within the borders of their homelands hence this policy of separate development".
[
citation
needed
]
Under the homelands system, blacks would no longer be citizens of South Africa, becoming citizens
of the independent homelands who worked in South Africa as foreign migrant labourers on temporary
work permits. In 1958 the Promotion of Black Self-Government Act was passed, and border industries
and the Bantu Investment Corporation were established to promote economic development and the
provision of employment in or near the homelands. Many black South Africans who had never resided in
their identified homeland were forcibly removed from the cities to the homelands.
Ten homelands were allocated to different black ethnic groups: Lebowa (North Sotho, also referred to as
Pedi), QwaQwa (South
Sotho),Bophuthatswana (Tswana), KwaZulu (Zulu), KaNgwane (Swazi), Transkei and Ciskei (Xhosa), Gazankulu (Tsonga), Venda (Ven
da) and KwaNdebele(Ndebele). Four of these were declared independent by the South African government:
Transkei in 1976, Bophuthatswana in 1977, Venda in 1979, and Ciskei in 1981 (known as the TBVC
states). Once a homeland was granted its nominal independence, its designated citizens had their South
African citizenship revoked, replaced with citizenship in their homeland. These people were then issued
passports instead of passbooks. Citizens of the nominally autonomous homelands also had their South
African citizenship circumscribed, meaning they were no longer legally considered South African.
[53]
The
South African government attempted to draw an equivalence between their view of black citizens of the
homelands and the problems which other countries faced through entry of illegal immigrants.
International recognition of the Bantustans[edit]
International recognition for these new countries was extremely limited. Each TBVC state extended
recognition to the other independent Bantustans while South Africa showed its commitment to the
notion of TBVC sovereignty by building embassies in the various TBVC capitals. Israel was the only
internationally recognised country and UN member to afford some sort of diplomatic recognition to any
of the Bantustans, though formal acknowledgment of the Bantustans as full-fledged countries never
occurred.
[54]
In late 1982, the Ciskei Trade Mission opened in Tel Aviv, flying its own flag and staffed by two
Israelis, Yosef Schneider and Nat Rosenwasser, who were employed by the Ciskei Foreign Ministry.
Bophuthatswana also had a representative in Israel, Shabtai Kalmanovich,
[54]
who in 1988 was sentenced by
Israel to seven years in jail for spying for the KGB.
[55]
In 1983 Israel was visited by the presidents of
Bophuthatswana and Ciskei, and by Vendas entire chamber of commerce.
[54]
During this visit Lennox
Sebe, the Ciskeian President, secured a contract with the Israeli government to supply and train his
armed forces.
[54]
Initially, six planes at least one a military helicopter were sold to Ciskei, and 18 Ciskei
residents arrived in Israel for pilot training.
[54]
In 1985 Israel received Buthelezi as Chief Minister of
KwaZulu during an unofficial visit.
[54]

During the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, the government implemented a policy of 'resettlement', to
force people to move to their designated "group areas". Millions of people were forced to relocate.
These removals included people relocated due to slum clearance programmes, labour tenants on white-
owned farms, the inhabitants of the so-called 'black spots' (black-owned land surrounded by white
farms), the families of workers living in townships close to the homelands, and 'surplus people' from
urban areas, including thousands of people from the Western Cape (which was declared a 'Coloured
Labour Preference Area'
[56]
) who were moved to the Transkei and Ciskei homelands. The best-publicised
forced removals of the 1950s occurred in Johannesburg, when 60,000 people were moved to the new
township of Soweto (an abbreviation for South Western Townships).
[57][58]

Until 1955 Sophiatown had been one of the few urban areas where blacks were allowed to own land, and
was slowly developing into a multiracial slum. As industry in Johannesburg grew, Sophiatown became
the home of a rapidly expanding black workforce, as it was convenient and close to town. It had the only
swimming pool for black children in Johannesburg.
[59]
As one of the oldest black settlements in
Johannesburg, it held an almost symbolic importance for the 50,000 blacks it contained, both in terms of
its sheer vibrancy and its unique culture. Despite a vigorous ANC protest campaign and worldwide
publicity, the removal of Sophiatown began on 9 February 1955 under the Western Areas Removal
Scheme. In the early hours, heavily armed police forced residents out of their homes and loaded their
belongings onto government trucks. The residents were taken to a large tract of land, 13 miles (19 km)
from the city centre, known as Meadowlands, which the government had purchased in 1953. Meadowlands
became part of a new planned black city called Soweto. Sophiatown was destroyed by bulldozers, and a
new white suburb named Triomf (Triumph) was built in its place. This pattern of forced removal and
destruction was to repeat itself over the next few years, and was not limited to people of African
descent. Forced removals from areas like Cato Manor (Mkhumbane) in Durban, and District Six in Cape Town,
where 55,000 coloured and Indian people were forced to move to new townships on the Cape Flats,
were carried out under the Group Areas Act of 1950. Nearly 600,000 coloured, Indian and Chinese people were
moved under the Group Areas Act. Some 40,000 whites were also forced to move when land was
transferred from "white South Africa" into the black homelands.
[
citation needed
]

[56]
[57][58]

[59]
transferred from "white South Africa" into the black homelands.
[
citation needed
]

During the 1980s the government, led by P.W. Botha, became increasingly preoccupied with security. It
set up a powerful state security apparatus to "protect" the state against an anticipated upsurge in political
violence that the reforms were expected to trigger. The 1980s became a period of considerable political
unrest, with the government becoming increasingly dominated by Botha's circle of generals and police
chiefs (known as securocrats), who managed the various States of Emergencies.
[128]

Botha's years in power were marked also by numerous military interventions in the states bordering
South Africa, as well as an extensive military and political campaign to eliminate SWAPO in Namibia.
Within South Africa, meanwhile, vigorous police action and strict enforcement of security legislation
resulted in hundreds of arrests and bans, and an effective end to the ANC's sabotage campaign.
The government punished political offenders brutally. 40,000 people were subjected to whipping as a form
of punishment annually.
[129]
The vast majority had committed political offences and were lashed ten
times for their crime.
[130]
If convicted of treason, a person could be hanged, and the government
executed numerous political offenders in this way.
As the 1980s progressed, more and more anti-apartheid organisations were formed and affiliated with
the UDF. Led by the Reverend Allan Boesak and Albertina Sisulu, the UDF called for the government to
abandon its reforms and instead abolish apartheid and eliminate the homelands completely.
State of emergency[edit]
Serious political violence was a prominent feature from 1985 to 1989, as black townships became the
focus of the struggle between anti-apartheid organisations and the Botha government. Throughout the
1980s, township people resisted apartheid by acting against the local issues that faced their particular
communities. The focus of much of this resistance was against the local authorities and their leaders,
who were seen to be supporting the government. By 1985, it had become the ANC's aim to make black
townships "ungovernable" (a term later replaced by "people's power") by means of rent boycotts and
other militant action. Numerous township councils were overthrown or collapsed, to be replaced by
unofficial popular organisations, often led by militant youth. People's courts were set up, and residents
accused of being government agents were dealt extreme and occasionally lethal punishment. Black
town councillors and policemen, and sometimes their families, were attacked with petrol bombs,
beaten, and murdered by necklacing, where a burning tyre was placed around the victim's neck, after they
were retrained by wrapping their wrists with barbed wire. This signature act of torture and murder was
embraced by the ANC and its leaders.
On 20 July 1985, Botha declared a State of Emergency in 36 magisterial districts. Areas affected were the Eastern
Cape, and the PWV region ("Pretoria, Witwatersrand, Vereeniging").
[131]
Three months later the Western Cape was
included. An increasing number of organisations were banned or listed (restricted in some way); many
individuals had restrictions such as house arrest imposed on them. During this state of emergency about
2,436 people were detained under the Internal Security Act.
[132]
This act gave police and the military
sweeping powers. The government could implement curfews controlling the movement of people. The
president could rule by decree without referring to the constitution or to parliament. It became a
criminal offence to threaten someone verbally or possess documents that the government perceived to
be threatening, to advise anyone to stay away from work or oppose the government, and to disclose the
name of anyone arrested under the State of Emergency until the government released that name, with
up to ten years' imprisonment for these offences. Detention without trial became a common feature of
the government's reaction to growing civil unrest and by 1988, 30,000 people had been detained.
[133]
The
media was censored, thousands were arrested and many were interrogated and tortured.
[134]

On 12 June 1986, four days before the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, the state of emergency
was extended to cover the whole country. The government amended the Public Security Act, including
the right to declare "unrest" areas, allowing extraordinary measures to crush protests in these areas.
Severe censorship of the press became a dominant tactic in the government's strategy and television
cameras were banned from entering such areas. The state broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting
Corporation (SABC), provided propaganda in support of the government. Media opposition to the system
increased, supported by the growth of a pro-ANC underground press within South Africa.
In 1987, the State of Emergency was extended for another two years. Meanwhile, about 200,000
members of the National Union of Mineworkers commenced the longest strike (three weeks) in South
African history. 1988 saw the banning of the activities of the UDF and other anti-apartheid
organisations.
Much of the violence in the late 1980s and early 1990s was directed at the government, but a
substantial amount was between the residents themselves. Many died in violence between members
of Inkatha and the UDF-ANC faction. It was later proven that the government manipulated the situation by
supporting one side or the other when it suited it. Government agents assassinated opponents within
South Africa and abroad; they undertook cross-border army and air-force attacks on suspected ANC and
PAC bases. The ANC and the PAC in return exploded bombs at restaurants, shopping centres and
government buildings such as magistrates courts.
The state of emergency continued until 1990, when it was lifted by State President F.W. de Klerk.
Final years of apartheid[edit]
Main article: Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa

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Factors[edit]
Institutional racism[edit]
Apartheid developed by racism of colonial factors and due to South Africas 'unique
industrialisation.
[135]
The policies of industrialisation led to segregation of and classing of people, which
was specifically developed to nurture early industry such as mining and capitalist culture.
[135]
Cheap
labour was the basis of the economy and this was taken from what the state classed as peasant groups
and the migrants.
[136]
Furthermore Bonner highlight the contradictory economic effects as the economy
did not have a manufacturing sector, therefore promoting short term profitability but limiting labour
productivity and the size of local markets. This also led to its collapse as Clarkes emphasises the
economy could not provide and compete with foreign rivals as they failed to master cheap labour and
complex chemistry.
[137]

Economic contradictions[edit]
Moreover the contradictions in the economy of the Apartheid state led to considerable debate among
state policy, and division and conflicts in the central state.
[138]
To a large extent the political ideology of
Apartheid had emerged from the colonisation of Africa by western states who introduced racial
discrimination, enslavement, and their role of "civilising inferior natives."
[138]
This can be seen in
Christian-nationalism, with its western ideology of Apartheid.
[139]
For example, seen in "1933 when the
executive of council Broederband enforced total mass segregation."
[139]
Similarly to the economy the
political factor was teemed with contradictions seen within the policies of the parties, this was further
weakened when different political groups emerged, many of whom were against Apartheid. Leading to
revolts like the "1984 township revolt that quickened the breakdown of Apartheid."
[139]

Western influence[edit]

Anti-apartheid protest at South Africa House in London, 1989
External western influence can be seen as one of the factors that arguably greatly influenced political
ideology, particularly due to the influences of colonization. South Africa in particular is argued to be an
unreconstructed example of western civilisation twisted by racism.
[140]
However, western influence also
helped end apartheid. Once the power of the Soviet Union declined along with its Communist influence,
western nations felt Apartheid could no longer be tolerated and spoke out, encouraging a move towards
democracy and self determination.
[
this quote needs a citation
]

In the 1960s South Africa experienced economic growth second only to that of Japan.
[141]
Trade with Western
countries grew, and investment from the United States, France and Britain poured in.
In 1974, resistance to apartheid was encouraged by Portugal's withdrawal from Mozambique and Angola, after
the 1974 Carnation Revolution. South African troops withdrew from Angola in early 1976, failing to prevent
the MPLA from gaining power there, and black students in South Africa celebrated.
The Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith, signed by Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Harry Schwarz in 1974, enshrined the principles
of peaceful transition of power and equality for all. Its purpose was to provide a blueprint for South
Africa by consent and racial peace in a multi-racial society, stressing opportunity for all, consultation, the
federal concept, and a Bill of Rights. It caused a split in the United Party that ultimately realigned opposition
politics in South Africa, with the formation of the Progressive Federal Party in 1977. It was the first of such
agreements by acknowledged black and white political leaders in South Africa.
In 1978 the defence minister of the NP, Pieter Willem Botha, became Prime Minister. Botha's white regime
was worried about the Soviet Union helping revolutionaries in South Africa, and the economy had
slowed down. The new government noted that it was spending too much money trying to maintain the
segregated homelands that had been created for blacks and the homelands were proving to be
uneconomical.
[
citation needed
]

Nor was maintaining blacks as a third class working well. The labour of blacks remained vital to the
economy, and illegal black labour unions were flourishing. Many blacks remained too poor to make
much of a contribution to the economy through their purchasing power although they were more than
70% of the population. Botha's regime was afraid that an antidote was needed to prevent the blacks
from being attracted to Communism.
[
citation needed
]

In July 1979 the Nigerian government claimed that the Shell-BP Petroleum Development Company of
Nigeria Limited (SPDC) was selling Nigerian oil to South Africa, although there was little evidence or
commercial logic for such sales.
[142]
The alleged sanctions-breaking was used to justify the seizure of
some of BP's assets in Nigeria including their stake in SPDC, although it appears the real reasons were
economic nationalism and domestic politics ahead of the Nigerian elections.
[143]
Many South Africans
attended schools in Nigeria,
[
citation needed
]
and Nelson Mandela several times acknowledged the role of Nigeria
in the struggle against apartheid.
[
citation needed
]

In the 1980s, the anti-apartheid movements in the United States and Europe were gaining support for
boycotts against South Africa, for the withdrawal of U.S. firms from South Africa and for the release of
Mandela. South Africa was becoming an outlaw in the world community of nations. Investing in South
Africa by Americans and others was coming to an end and an active policy ofdisinvestment ensued.
Notable student protests: University of Illinois campuses[edit]
There were several notable student-led protests against apartheid throughout the United States in
hopes of convincing their colleges and universities to promote divestment. Forming the Champaign-
Urbana Coalition against Apartheid (CU-CAA) in 1977, students feverishly made attempts at persuading
the university to consider divestment beginning with a stop at the University of Illinois Foundation and
then to President John Corballys office to urge him to open a debate against apartheid. Despite his
reluctance to participate, several other university administrators agreed to support the coalitions
efforts, in turn leading to the development of the Coalition for Illinois Divestment from South Africa
(CIDSA) in 1983 which teamed with CU-CAA to continue the movement.
However, the university continued to deny the students proposals for Board of Trustees President Nina
T. Shepherd to defer the $21 million that the school had invested in South Africa corporations. As a
result, students staged a public protest on the Chicago campus on June 21, 1985, which ended with 16
students being arrested. The tense situation continued as a 6.4% tuition fee increase was instituted on
April 12, 1986, leading to a flurry of protests that resulted in 60 students being arrested and a 300-
student mock riot on the following day. As opposition continued, university president Stanley
Ikenberry made an unsuccessful proposal for divestment on September 11, 1986, which set the stage for
a Board resolution on January 14, 1987 calling for an 18-month divestment plan, which, despite its best
intentions, resulted in a divestment of only $3.3 million.
[144]

Tricameral parliament[edit]
Main article: Tricameral Parliament
In the early 1980s, Botha's National Party government started to recognise the inevitability of the need
to reform apartheid.
[145]
Early reforms were driven by a combination of internal violence, international
condemnation, changes within the National Party's constituency, and changing demographicswhites
constituted only 16% of the total population, in comparison to 20% fifty years earlier.
[146]

In 1983, a new constitution was passed implementing what was called the Tricameral Parliament, giving
coloureds and Indians voting rights and parliamentary representation in separate houses the House of
Assembly (178 members) for whites, the House of Representatives (85 members) for coloureds and the
House of Delegates (45 members) for Indians.
[147]
Each House handled laws pertaining to its racial group's
"own affairs", including health, education and other community issues.
[148]
All laws relating to "general
affairs" (matters such as defence, industry, taxation and Black affairs) were handled by a cabinet made
up of representatives from all three houses. However, the white chamber had a large majority on this
cabinet, ensuring that effective control of the country remained in white hands.
[149][150]
Blacks, although
making up the majority of the population, were excluded from representation; they remained nominal
citizens of their homelands.
[151]
The first Tricameral elections were largely boycotted by Coloured and
Indian voters, amid widespread rioting.
[152]

Reforms and contact with the ANC under Botha[edit]
Concerned over the popularity of Mandela, Botha denounced him as an arch-Marxist committed to violent
revolution, but to appease black opinion and nurture Mandela as a benevolent leader of blacks, the
government moved him from Robben Island to Pollsmoor Prison in a rural area just outside Cape Town,
where prison life was easier. The government allowed Mandela more visitors, including visits and
interviews by foreigners, to let the world know that he was being treated well.
Black homelands were declared nation-states and pass laws were abolished. Black labour unions were
legitimised, the government recognised the right of blacks to live in urban areas permanently and gave
blacks property rights there. Interest was expressed in rescinding the law against interracial marriage and
also rescinding the law against sex between the races, which was under ridicule abroad. The spending
for black schools increased, to one-seventh of what was spent per white child, up from on one-sixteenth
in 1968. At the same time, attention was given to strengthening the effectiveness of the police
apparatus.
In January 1985, Botha addressed the government's House of Assembly and stated that the government
was willing to release Mandela on condition that Mandela pledge opposition to acts of violence to
further political objectives. Mandela's reply was read in public by his daughter Zinzi his first words
distributed publicly since his sentence to prison twenty-one years before. Mandela described violence as
the responsibility of the apartheid regime and said that with democracy there would be no need for
violence. The crowd listening to the reading of his speech erupted in cheers and chants. This response
helped to further elevate Mandela's status in the eyes of those, both internationally and domestically,
who opposed apartheid.
Between 1986 and 1988, some petty apartheid laws were repealed. Botha told white South Africans to
"adapt or die"
[153]
and twice he wavered on the eve of what were billed as "rubicon" announcements of
substantial reforms, although on both occasions he backed away from substantial changes. Ironically,
these reforms served only to trigger intensified political violence through the remainder of the eighties
as more communities and political groups across the country joined the resistance movement. Botha's
government stopped short of substantial reforms, such as lifting the ban on the ANC, PAC and SACP and
other liberation organisations, releasing political prisoners, or repealing the foundation laws of grand
apartheid. The government's stance was that they would not contemplate negotiating until those
organisations "renounced violence".
By 1987 the growth of South Africa's economy had dropped to among the lowest rate in the world, and
the ban on South African participation in international sporting events was frustrating many whites in
South Africa. Examples of African states with black leaders and white minorities existed in Kenya and
Zimbabwe. Whispers of South Africa one day having a black President sent more hardline whites into
Rightist parties. Mandela was moved to a four-bedroom house of his own, with a swimming pool and
shaded by fir trees, on a prison farm just outside Cape Town. He had an unpublicised meeting with
Botha. Botha impressed Mandela by walking forward, extending his hand and pouring Mandela's tea.
The two had a friendly discussion, with Mandela comparing the African National Congress' rebellion with
that of the Afrikaner rebellion and talking about everyone being brothers.
A number of clandestine meetings were held between the ANC-in-exile and various sectors of the
internal struggle, such as women and educationalists. More overtly, a group of white intellectuals met
the ANC in Senegal for talks.
[154]

Presidency of F.W. de Klerk[edit]

De Klerk and Mandela in Davos, 1992
Early in 1989, Botha suffered a stroke; he was prevailed upon to resign in February 1989.
[155]
He was
succeeded as president later that year byF.W. de Klerk. Despite his initial reputation as a conservative, de
Klerk moved decisively towards negotiations to end the political stalemate in the country. In his opening
address to parliament on 2 February 1990, de Klerk announced that he would repeal discriminatory laws
and lift the 30-year ban on leading anti-apartheid groups such as the African National Congress, the Pan
Africanist Congress, the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the United Democratic Front. The Land Act
was brought to an end. De Klerk also made his first public commitment to release Nelson Mandela, to
return to press freedom and to suspend the death penalty. Media restrictions were lifted and political
prisoners not guilty ofcommon-law crimes were released.
On 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from Victor Verster Prison after more than 27 years of
confinement.
Having been instructed by the UN Security Council to end its long-standing involvement in South-West Africa
/ Namibia, and in the face of military stalemate in Southern Angola, and an escalation in the size and cost
of the combat with the Cubans, the Angolans, and SWAPO forces and the growing cost of the border
war, South Africa negotiated a change of control; Namibia became independent on 21 March 1990.
Negotiations[edit]
Main article: Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa
Apartheid was dismantled in a series of negotiations from 1990 to 1993, culminating in elections in 1994, the
first in South Africa with universal suffrage.
From 1990 to 1996 the legal apparatus of apartheid was abolished. In 1990 negotiations were earnestly
begun, with two meetings between the government and the ANC. The purpose of the negotiations was
to pave the way for talks towards a peaceful transition of power. These meetings were successful in
laying down the preconditions for negotiations despite the considerable tensions still abounding
within the country.
At the first meeting, the NP and ANC discussed the conditions for negotiations to begin. The meeting
was held at Groote Schuur, the President's official residence. They released the Groote Schuur Minute,
which said that before negotiations commenced political prisoners would be freed and all exiles allowed
to return.
There were fears that the change of power would be violent. To avoid this, it was essential that a
peaceful resolution between all parties be reached. In December 1991, the Convention for a Democratic
South Africa (CODESA) began negotiations on the formation of a multiracial transitional government and
a new constitution extending political rights to all groups. CODESA adopted a Declaration of Intent and
committed itself to an "undivided South Africa".
Reforms and negotiations to end apartheid led to a backlash among the right-wing white opposition,
leading to the Conservative Party winning a number of by-elections against NP candidates. De Klerk
responded by calling a whites-only referendum in March 1992 to decide whether negotiations should
continue. A 68 per cent majority gave its support, and the victory instilled in de Klerk and the
government a lot more confidence, giving the NP a stronger position in negotiations.
When negotiations resumed in May 1992, under the tag of CODESA II, stronger demands were made.
The ANC and the government could not reach a compromise on how power should be shared during the
transition to democracy. The NP wanted to retain a strong position in a transitional government, and the
power to change decisions made by parliament.
Persistent violence added to the tension during the negotiations. This was due mostly to the intense
rivalry between the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the ANC and the eruption of some traditional tribal and
local rivalries between the Zulu and Xhosa historical tribal affinities, especially in the Southern Natal
provinces. Although Mandela and Buthelezi met to settle their differences, they could not stem the
violence. One of the worst cases of ANC-IFP violence was the Boipatong massacre of 17 June 1992, when 200
IFP militants attacked the Gauteng township of Boipatong, killing 45. Witnesses said that the men had
arrived in police vehicles, supporting claims that elements within the police and army contributed to the
ongoing violence. Subsequent judicial inquiries found the evidence of the witnesses to be unreliable or
discredited, and that there was no evidence of National Party or police involvement in the massacre.
When de Klerk visited the scene of the incident he was initially warmly welcomed, but he was suddenly
confronted by a crowd of protesters brandishing stones and placards. The motorcade sped from the
scene as police tried to hold back the crowd. Shots were fired by the police, and the PAC stated that
three of its supporters had been gunned down.
[156]
Nonetheless, the Boipatong massacre offered the ANC
a pretext to engage in brinkmanship. Mandela argued that de Klerk, as head of state, was responsible
for bringing an end to the bloodshed. He also accused the South African police of inciting the ANC-IFP
violence. This formed the basis for ANC's withdrawal from the negotiations, and the CODESA forum
broke down completely at this stage.
The Bisho massacre on 7 September 1992 brought matters to a head. The Ciskei Defence Force killed 29
people and injured 200 when they opened fire on ANC marchers demanding the reincorporation of
the Ciskei homeland into South Africa. In the aftermath, Mandela and de Klerk agreed to meet to find ways
to end the spiralling violence. This led to a resumption of negotiations.
Right-wing violence also added to the hostilities of this period. The assassination of Chris Hani on 10 April
1993 threatened to plunge the country into chaos. Hani, the popular general secretary of the South
African Communist Party (SACP), was assassinated in 1993 in Dawn Park in Johannesburg by Janusz Walu,
an anti-communist Polish refugee who had close links to the white nationalist Afrikaner
Weerstandsbeweging (AWB). Hani enjoyed widespread support beyond his constituency in the SACP and ANC
and had been recognised as a potential successor to Mandela; his death brought forth protests
throughout the country and across the international community, but ultimately proved a turning point,
after which the main parties pushed for a settlement with increased determination.
[157]
On 25 June 1993,
the AWB used an armoured vehicle to crash through the doors of the Kempton Park World Trade Centre where
talks were still going ahead under the Negotiating Council, though this did not derail the process.
[158]

In addition to the continuing "black-on-black" violence, there were a number of attacks on white
civilians by the PAC's military wing, the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA). The PAC was hoping to
strengthen their standing by attracting the support of the angry, impatient youth. In the St James Church
massacre on 25 July 1993, members of the APLA opened fire in a church in Cape Town, killing 11 members
of the congregation and wounding 58.
In 1993 de Klerk and Mandela were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for the peaceful
termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South
Africa".
[159]

Violence persisted right up to the 1994 elections. Lucas Mangope, leader of the Bophuthatswana homeland,
declared that it would not take part in the elections. It had been decided that, once the temporary
constitution had come into effect, the homelands would be incorporated into South Africa, but
Mangope did not want this to happen. There were strong protests against his decision, leading to a coup
d'tat in Bophuthatswana on 10 March that deposed Mangope, despite the intervention of white right-wingers
hoping to maintain him in power. Three AWB militants were killed during this intervention, and
harrowing images were shown on national television and in newspapers across the world.
Two days before the elections, a car bomb exploded in Johannesburg, killing nine.
[160][161]
The day before the
elections, another one went off, injuring 13. At midnight on 2627 April 1994 the old flag was lowered,
and the old (now co-official) national anthem Die Stem ("The Call") was sung, followed by the raising of the
new rainbow flag and singing of the other co-official anthem, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika ("God Bless Africa").
1994 election[edit]
Main article: South African general election, 1994
The election was held on 27 April 1994 and went off peacefully throughout the country as 20 million
South Africans cast their votes. There was some difficulty in organising the voting in rural areas, but
people waited patiently for many hours in order to vote amidst a palpable feeling of goodwill. An extra
day was added to give everyone the chance. International observers agreed that the elections were free
and fair.
[162]
However, this view has been challenged. There were widespread irregularities, ignored by
the international observers.
[
citation needed
]
The European Union's report on the election compiled at the end of
May 1994, published two years after the election, criticised the Independent Electoral Commission's lack
of preparedness for the polls, the shortages of voting materials at many voting stations, and the absence
of effective safeguards against fraud in the counting process. In particular, it expressed disquiet that "no
international observers had been allowed to be present at the crucial stage of the count when party
representatives negotiated over disputed ballots." This meant that both the electorate and the world
were "simply left to guess at the way the final result was achieved."
[163]

The ANC won 62.65% of the vote,
[164][165]
less than the 66.7% that would have allowed it to rewrite the
constitution. 252 of the 400 seats went to members of the African National Congress. The NP captured
most of the white and coloured votes and became the official opposition party. As well as deciding the
national government, the election decided the provincial governments, and the ANC won in seven of the
nine provinces, with the NP winning in the Western Cape and the IFP in KwaZulu-Natal. On 10 May 1994,
Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's president. The Government of National Unity was established,
its cabinet made up of 12 ANC representatives, six from the NP, and three from the IFP. Thabo Mbeki and
de Klerk were made deputy presidents.
The anniversary of the elections, 27 April, is celebrated as a public holiday known as Freedom Day.
Contrition[edit]
The following individuals, who had previously supported apartheid, made public apologies:
F. W. de Klerk "I apologise in my capacity as leader of the NP to the millions who suffered wrenching
disruption of forced removals; who suffered the shame of being arrested for pass law offences; who
over the decades suffered the indignities and humiliation of racial discrimination."
[166]

Marthinus van Schalkwyk "The National Party brought development to a section of South Africa, but also
brought suffering through a system grounded on injustice", in a statement shortly after the National
Party voted to disband.
[167]
[
verification needed
]

Adriaan Vlok who washed the feet of apartheid victim Frank Chikane in an act of apology for the wrongs of the
Apartheid regime.
[168]

Leon Wessels who said "I am now more convinced than ever that apartheid was a terrible mistake that
blighted our land. South Africans did not listen to the laughing and the crying of each other. I am sorry
that I had been so hard of hearing for so long".
[169]

See also[edit]

South Africa portal

1950s portal

1960s portal

1970s portal

1980s portal

1990s portal
Apartheid legislation in South Africa
Racial segregation
Africa Hinterland (arms smuggling operation)
Apartheid in art and literature
Apartheid Museum
Anti-Apartheid Movement
Belhar Confession
Jim Crow laws
Day of Reconciliation
Foreign relations of South Africa during apartheid
Legacies of apartheid
Liberation before education
Nelson Mandela
Paris Peace Conference, 1919#Japanese approach
Sandra Laing
Second-class citizen
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)
White Australia policy
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Under the homeland system, the government attempted to divide South Africa into a number of
separate states, each of which was supposed to develop into a separate nation-state for a different
ethnic group.
[52]

Territorial separation was not a new institution. There were, for example, the "reserves" created under
the British government in the nineteenth century. Under apartheid, 13 per cent of the land was reserved
for black homelands, a relatively small amount compared to the total population, and generally in
economically unproductive areas of the country. The Tomlinson Commission of 1954 justified apartheid
and the homeland system, but stated that additional land ought to be given to the homelands, a
recommendation that was not carried out.
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When Verwoerd became Prime Minister in 1958, the policy of "separate development" came into being,
with the homeland structure as one of its cornerstones. Verwoerd came to believe in the granting of
independence to these homelands. The government justified its plans on the basis that "(the)
government's policy is, therefore, not a policy of discrimination on the grounds of race or colour, but a
policy of differentiation on the ground of nationhood, of different nations, granting to each self-
determination within the borders of their homelands hence this policy of separate development".
[
citation
needed
]
Under the homelands system, blacks would no longer be citizens of South Africa, becoming citizens
of the independent homelands who worked in South Africa as foreign migrant labourers on temporary
work permits. In 1958 the Promotion of Black Self-Government Act was passed, and border industries
and the Bantu Investment Corporation were established to promote economic development and the
provision of employment in or near the homelands. Many black South Africans who had never resided in
their identified homeland were forcibly removed from the cities to the homelands.
Ten homelands were allocated to different black ethnic groups: Lebowa (North Sotho, also referred to as
Pedi), QwaQwa (South
Sotho),Bophuthatswana (Tswana), KwaZulu (Zulu), KaNgwane (Swazi), Transkei and Ciskei (Xhosa), Gazankulu (Tsonga), Venda (Ven
da) and KwaNdebele(Ndebele). Four of these were declared independent by the South African government:
Transkei in 1976, Bophuthatswana in 1977, Venda in 1979, and Ciskei in 1981 (known as the TBVC
states). Once a homeland was granted its nominal independence, its designated citizens had their South
African citizenship revoked, replaced with citizenship in their homeland. These people were then issued
passports instead of passbooks. Citizens of the nominally autonomous homelands also had their South
African citizenship circumscribed, meaning they were no longer legally considered South African.
[53]
The
South African government attempted to draw an equivalence between their view of black citizens of the
homelands and the problems which other countries faced through entry of illegal immigrants.
International recognition of the Bantustans[edit]
International recognition for these new countries was extremely limited. Each TBVC state extended
recognition to the other independent Bantustans while South Africa showed its commitment to the
notion of TBVC sovereignty by building embassies in the various TBVC capitals. Israel was the only
internationally recognised country and UN member to afford some sort of diplomatic recognition to any
of the Bantustans, though formal acknowledgment of the Bantustans as full-fledged countries never
occurred.
[54]
In late 1982, the Ciskei Trade Mission opened in Tel Aviv, flying its own flag and staffed by two
Israelis, Yosef Schneider and Nat Rosenwasser, who were employed by the Ciskei Foreign Ministry.
Bophuthatswana also had a representative in Israel, Shabtai Kalmanovich,
[54]
who in 1988 was sentenced by
Israel to seven years in jail for spying for the KGB.
[55]
In 1983 Israel was visited by the presidents of
Bophuthatswana and Ciskei, and by Vendas entire chamber of commerce.
[54]
During this visit Lennox
Sebe, the Ciskeian President, secured a contract with the Israeli government to supply and train his
armed forces.
[54]
Initially, six planes at least one a military helicopter were sold to Ciskei, and 18 Ciskei
residents arrived in Israel for pilot training.
[54]
In 1985 Israel received Buthelezi as Chief Minister of
KwaZulu during an unofficial visit.
[54]

Forced removals [edit]

Investigating geographic segregation
See also: Group Areas Act and Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act, 1991
[56]
[57][58]

[59]
transferred from "white South Africa" into the black homelands
The NP passed a string of legislation that became known as petty apartheid. The first of these was the
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act 55 of 1949, prohibiting marriage between whites and people of
other races. The Immorality Amendment Act 21 of 1950 (as amended in 1957 by Act 23) forbade
"unlawful racial intercourse" and "any immoral or indecent act" between a white and an African, Indian
or coloured person.
Blacks were not allowed to run businesses or professional practices in areas designated as "white South
Africa" unless they had a permit. They were required to move to the black "homelands" and set up
businesses and practices there. Transport and civil facilities were segregated. Black buses stopped at
black bus stops and white buses at white ones. Trains, hospitals and ambulances were
segregated.
[60]
Because of the smaller numbers of white patients and the fact that white doctors
preferred to work in white hospitals, conditions in white hospitals were much better than those in often
overcrowded and understaffed black hospitals.
[61]
Blacks were excluded from living or working in white
areas, unless they had a pass, nicknamed the dompas ("dumb pass" in Afrikaans). Only blacks with
"Section 10" rights (those who had migrated to the cities before World War II) were excluded from this
provision. A pass was issued only to a black with approved work. Spouses and children had to be left
behind in black homelands. A pass was issued for one magisterial district (usually one town) confining
the holder to that area only. Being without a valid pass made a person subject to arrest and trial for
being an illegal migrant. This was often followed by deportation to the person's homeland and prosecution
of the employer for employing an illegal migrant. Police vans patrolled white areas to round up blacks
without passes. Blacks were not allowed to employ whites in white South Africa.
[
citation needed
]

Although trade unions for black and coloured (mixed race) workers had existed since the early 20th century,
it was not until the 1980s reforms that a mass black trade union movement developed. Trade unions
under apartheid were racially segregated, with 54 unions being white only, 38 for Indian and coloured
and 19 for African people. The Industrial Conciliation Act (1956) legislated against the creation of multi-
racial trade unions and attempted to split existing multi-racial unions into separate branches or
organisations along racial lines.
[62]

In the 1970s the state spent ten times more per child on the education of white children than on black
children within the Bantu Education system (the education system in black schools within white South
Africa). Higher education was provided in separate universities and colleges after 1959. Eight black
universities were created in the homelands. Fort Hare University in the Ciskei (now Eastern Cape) was to
register only Xhosa-speaking students. Sotho,Tswana, Pedi and Venda speakers were placed at the newly
founded University College of the North at Turfloop, while the University College of Zululandwas launched to serve Zulu
scholars. Coloureds and Indians were to have their own establishments in
the Cape and Natal respectively.
[
citation needed
]

Each black homeland controlled its own education, health and police systems. Blacks were not allowed
to buy hard liquor. They were able only to buy state-produced poor quality beer (although this was relaxed
later). Public beaches were racially segregated. Public swimming pools, some pedestrian bridges, drive-
in cinema parking spaces, graveyards, parks, and public toilets were segregated. Cinemas and theatres in
white areas were not allowed to admit blacks. There were practically no cinemas in black areas. Most
restaurants and hotels in white areas were not allowed to admit blacks except as staff. Blacks were
prohibited from attending white churches under the Churches Native Laws Amendment Act of 1957, but
this was never rigidly enforced and churches were one of the few places races could mix without the
interference of the law. Blacks earning 360 rand a year or more had to pay taxes while the white
threshold was more than twice as high, at 750 rand a year. On the other hand, the taxation rate for
whites was considerably higher than that for blacks.
[
citation needed
]

Blacks could never acquire land in white areas. In the homelands, much of the land belonged to a 'tribe',
where the local chieftain would decide how the land had to be used. This resulted in whites owning
almost all the industrial and agricultural lands and much of the prized residential land. Most blacks were
stripped of their South African citizenship when the "homelands" became "independent", and they were
no longer able to apply for South African passports. Eligibility requirements for a passport had been
difficult for blacks to meet, the government contending that a passport was a privilege, not a right, and
the government did not grant many passports to blacks. Apartheid pervaded culture as well as the law,
and was entrenched by most of the mainstream media.
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Main article: Coloured
The population was classified into four groups: Black, White, Indian, and Coloured (capitalised to denote
their legal definitions in South African law). The Coloured group included people regarded as being of
mixed descent, including of Bantu, Khoisan, European and Malay ancestry. Many were descended from people
brought to South Africa from other parts of the world, such as India, Madagascar,
and China as slaves and indentured workers.
[63]

The apartheid bureaucracy devised complex (and often arbitrary) criteria at the time that the Population
Registration Act was implemented to determine who was Coloured. Minor officials would administer
tests to determine if someone should be categorised either Coloured or Black, or if another person
should be categorised either Coloured or White. Different members of the same family found
themselves in different race groups. Further tests determined membership of the various sub-racial
groups of the Coloureds. Many of those who formerly belonged to this racial group are opposed to the
continuing use of the term "coloured" in the post-apartheid era, though the term no longer signifies any
legal meaning. The expressions 'so-called Coloured' (Afrikaans sogenaamde Kleurlinge) and 'brown
people' (bruinmense) acquired a wide usage in the 1980s.
Discriminated against by apartheid, Coloureds were as a matter of state policy forced to live in
separate townships, in some cases leaving homes their families had occupied for generations, and received
an inferior education, though better than that provided to Blacks.
[
citation needed
]
They played an important role
in the anti-apartheid movement: for example the African Political Organization established in 1902 had an exclusively
Coloured membership.
Voting rights were denied to Coloureds in the same way that they were denied to Blacks from 1950 to
1983. However, in 1977 the NP caucus approved proposals to bring Coloureds and Indians into central
government. In 1982, final constitutional proposals produced a referendum among Whites, and
theTricameral Parliament was approved. The Constitution was reformed the following year to allow the
Coloured and Asian minorities participation in separate Houses in a Tricameral Parliament, and Botha
became the first Executive State President. The idea was that the Coloured minority could be granted
voting rights, but the Black majority were to become citizens of independent homelands. These separate
arrangements continued until the abolition of apartheid. The Tricameral reforms led to the formation of
the (anti-apartheid) United Democratic Front as a vehicle to try to prevent the co-option of Coloureds and
Indians into an alliance with Whites. The battles between the UDF and the NP government from 1983 to
1989 were to become the most intense period of struggle between left-wing and right-wing South
Africans.
Women under apartheid[edit]
Colonialism and apartheid had a major impact on women since they suffered both racial and gender
discrimination. Oppression against black and coloured women was different from discrimination against
men. They had very few or no legal rights, no access to education and no right to own property.
[64]
Jobs
were often hard to find but many black and coloured women worked as agricultural or domestic
workers though wages were extremely low, if existent.
[65]
Children suffered from diseases caused by
malnutrition and sanitary problems, and mortality rates were therefore high. The controlled movement
of black and coloured workers within the country through the Natives Urban Areas Act of 1923 and
the pass-laws, separated family members from one another as men usually worked in urban centres, while
women were forced to stay in rural areas. Marriage law and births
[66]
were also controlled by the
government and the pro-apartheid Dutch Reformed Church, which tried to restrict black and coloured birth
rates.

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