Homeland Policy Flashcards
What is a Bantustan?
A negative word for the reserves where black people were meant to be citizens.
What did Verwoerd develop?
The principles of the sepals the races even further.
What did the government do in 1960?
They turned the reserves created by the 1913 land act into ten separate homelands or Bantustans.
How were Africans places into homelands?
They were placed in the homelands based on their ethnicity
What was the aim of these homelands?
Verwoerd claimed that these homelands were in effect separate and individual countries. Africans would have full political rights in these homelands. They would develop separately and independently from whites.
How many blacks were moved?
3 million blacks because they were living on land that the government declared was for white people only.
What did the NP want to show the world?
That it was democratic country in which all its citizens had the right to vote. They argued that blacks were not denied political rights as they could vote in the homelands.
Did blacks have rights in SA?
No because they were not citizens of SA
Did the world recognize these homelands?
No international community recognized that the homelands were separate and independent countries.
What did the removals result in?
Hardships for black people.
Africans could not make a ________ in these homelands. The Bantustans were ______ stricken. People also lost their _____.
Living
Poverty
Land
Which facilities did they not have?(4)
- Clinics
- Schools
- Libraries
- Sports stadia
Why were families split up?
Men had to go to the white cities to look for work, and mothers stayed in the reserves to look after children. The men were not allowed to stay in the cities permanently but had to return to the reserves every few months or so.
Where would men stay while away from reserves?
Worker’s hostels or in African townships under poor conditions.
Mothers relied on money sent to them by their ______ to support themselves and their children.
Husbands
