Diverse Peoples of South Africa

Question 1

White British Settlers

Answer 1

viewed as superior, fear of conflict/being challenged

Question 2

Coloured community

Answer 2

Ancestry includes: European settlers, indigenous African people, Dutch East indies and Indian slaves (All classified as a single group)
Government restricted their rights
Viewed as second class- property of the Dutch

Question 3

Native People

Answer 3

Bantu speaking groups who occupied the land before the European settlement
Lived in tribes of 1000 and traded between each other
Viewed as workers on many farms as slave labour.
Uneducated, illiterate and inferior

Question 4

Indian/’Asian’ community

Answer 4

Many had been brought over as slaves
Descendants of migrants from colonial India
Majority from Durban
Being ‘Christianised’
Segregated through the ‘Group Areas act’
Viewed as second class, not as targeted as the other groups