Action for Justice
South African Case Studies
O Africa’s most developed
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economy
Indigenous peoples,
colonized by Dutch and
British
Varied environment
Densely populated urban
areas
Multiracial
High unemployment, AIDS
epidemic
Significant mineral resources
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/south-africa-facts/
Varied Geography
Apartheid
O Instituted in 1948 by Afrikaner-led
government
O Country-wide policy of segregation
O Education
O Black SAs forced into
“homelands” and “townships”
O Employment
O 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 Act
O Created separate and unequal education
system for black students
O Designed to reinforce black labor in whiterun economy
O 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 Act
O Assigned different racial groups to different
sections in urban areas
O Excluded non-Whites from living in the most
developed areas
O 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_legisl
ation