The Bantustan System

Question 1

What is the bantustan system?

Answer 1

Territory set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa

Question 2

Results of Bantu Self-Government Act - 1959

Answer 2

• Divided Black population into 8 ethnic groups
• homelands would (not really) be independent and self governing
• blacks in the areas were no longer citizens

Question 3

Issues with the bantustan system?

Answer 3

• homelands were led by corrupt oligarchies
• located in worst agricultural areas which became even worse
• no real connection to assigned homelands
• overcrowded

Question 4

Impact of bantustan system?

Answer 4

• blacks were citizens of their bantustans only
• corruption and brutal oligarchies run bantustans
• made up of 13% of total land area and 55% of population lives there

Question 5

Message of system?

Answer 5

Prime Minister Verwoerd is trying to display false picture of the homelands as a “promised land” however the world is unimpressed and sees the reality