Question

mention three main features of apartheid law and practice

Answer 1

a. The white Europeans imposed the system of apartheid on the blacks in South Africa, that divided the people on the basis of their skin colour.

b. The discriminatory policies of apartheid regime sought to segregate blacks, considered them inferior and deprived them of socio economic and political equality.

c. Such a system, flouted the very principle of Equality as Blacks were denied equal opportunities, and followed oppressive discriminatory policies.

d. It undermined value of Liberty and freedom, Blacks were denied voting rights and were not allowed to voice their dissent

e. Blacks were segregated there were separate schools, toilets, hospitals,beaches for them

Answer 2

1. Apartheid policy that governed relations between South Africa’s white minority and nonwhite majority and sanctioned racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites. The implementation of apartheid, often called “separate development” since the 1960s, was made possible through the Population Registration Act of 1950, which classified all South Africans as either Bantu (all black Africans), coloured , or white. A fourth category—Asian (Indian and Pakistani)—was later added.

2. Racial segregation, sanctioned by law, was widely practiced in South Africa before 1948, but the National Party, which gained office that year, extended the policy and gave it the name apartheid. The Group Areas Act of 1950 established residential and business sections in urban areas for each race, and members of other races were barred from living, operating businesses, or owning land in them.

3.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.