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Action for JusticeSouth African Case Studies

O Africa’s most developed economy

O Indigenous peoples, colonized by Dutch and British

O Varied environmentO Densely populated

urban areasO MultiracialO High unemployment,

AIDS epidemicO Significant mineral

resourceshttp://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/south-africa-facts/

Varied Geography

ApartheidO Instituted in 1948 by Afrikaner-led

governmentO Country-wide policy of segregation O EducationO Black SAs forced into “homelands” and “townships”O EmploymentO Voting rights

Race During Apartheid

O Black/African – 78%O White – 10%O Colored/Mixed – 8.7 %O Indian – 2.5%

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/south-africa-facts/

Education During Apartheid

O 1953 Bantu Education ActO Created separate and unequal

education system for black studentsO Designed to reinforce black labor in

white-run economyO Poor resources (funding, teacher-

student ratios)O 1/10 funding of white, 56:1 ratio

O Negative portrayal of African people

Bantu Education Continued

Minister of Native Affairs, H.F. Verwoerd:

“There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of teaching the Bantu child mathematics when it cannot use it in practice? That is quite absurd. Education must train people in accordance with their opportunities in life, according to the sphere in which they live."

http://africanhistory.about.com/od/apartheid/qt/ApartheidQts1.htm

Bantu Education Continued

Also from Verwoerd: “There is no space for him [the "Native"] in the European Community above certain forms of labor. For this reason it is of no avail for him to receive training which has its aim in the absorption of the European Community, where he cannot be absorbed. Until now he has been subjected to a school system which drew him away from his community and misled him by showing him the greener pastures of European Society where he is not allowed to graze.” (quoted in Kallaway, 92)

http://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/sidebar.php?id=65-258-2

Land and Resources

O 1950 Group Areas ActO Assigned different racial groups to

different sections in urban areasO Excluded non-Whites from living in

the most developed areasO Results: commutes, pass laws,

townships

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Areas_Act

http://www1.american.edu/ted/ICE/kwazulu.html

Apartheid Legislation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid_legislation