How far had segregation been established by 1940?

Question 1

Jobs

Answer 1

Higher jobs with more money were denied for black and coloured people. Mines and Works Act gave the whites a wide range of high-paying jobs and the blacks hard labor with low pay. Railway workers well all white.

Question 2

Pass laws

Answer 2

Black people had to have a pass with their employers details on for them to be allowed into white areas.

Restricted number of blacks in towns and making their stay temporary.

Every black male had to carry his address, employer, wages and other personal details. He could be stopped at any time by police to check.

Question 3

Black locations

Answer 3

Black people had designated areas to live. These known as their ‘homelands’

Black people could not own land unless in these reserved areas.

Far from town which made it hard to sell and trade their produce. Also had no electricity or running water. Many had to olive alongside rivers and/or dig wells.

Question 4

Land acts

Answer 4

Only 7% (increased to 13% in 1936 by the Native Land Act) of the land was allocated to the black people, even though it was 67% of the population was black.

Black were more successful since they had more labor, because women and some children worked in the fields and livestock. Afrikaans women did not.

Share-cropping was banned and blacks were only allowed to occupy white land if they worked for the white owner.