define the term of apartheid policy
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Apartheid, (Afrikaans: “apartness”) policy that governed relations between South Africa's white minority and nonwhite majority and sanctioned racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
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), which became known collectively as the Land Acts, completed a process that had begun with similar Land Acts adopted in 1913 and 1936; the end result was to set aside more than 80 percent of South Africa’s land for the white minority. To help enforce the segregation of the races and prevent Blacks from encroaching on white areas, the government strengthened the existing “pass” laws, which required nonwhites to carry documents authorizing their presence in restricted areas. Other laws forbade most social contacts between the races, authorized segregated public facilities, established separate educational standards, restricted each race to certain types of jobs, curtailed nonwhite labour unions, and denied nonwhite participation (through white representatives) in the national government.
apartheid-era sign
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Apartheid-era sign, part of an exhibition in the Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Under the Bantu Authorities Act of 1951 the government reestablished tribal organizations for Black Africans, and the Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act of 1959 created 10 African homelands, or Bantustans. 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 politic. Four of the Bantustans were granted independence as republics, and the remaining had varying degrees of self-government; but all remained dependent, both politically and economically, on South Africa. The dependence of the South African economy on nonwhite labour, though, made it difficult for the government to carry out this policy of separate development.
Bantustans
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Bantustan territories (also known as Black homelands or Black states) in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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Study the history of apartheid in Cape Town and the imprisonment of rebels in the Robben Island, most notably Nelson Mandela
Study the history of apartheid in Cape Town and the imprisonment of rebels in the Robben Island, most notably Nelson Mandela
Learn about the history of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa, and nearby Robben Island, where a number of black activists, most notably Nelson Mandela, were imprisoned.
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