Establishing Apartheid: Part I

DEMOGRAPHICS: 

• 4 main broad ethnic groups; blacks, whites, indians, coloured

• White people had power over the interests of all (dominant race)

• Blacks were commonly used as cheap labour

• Indians largely introduced as agriculture labourers

CULTURE AND RELIGION:

• Boers were christians as were afrikaners

• Rejected alcohol

• Did hard farming work

• Believed that people of colour were inferior (cursed by god)

• Afrikaners realised that they had no mother country

• Known as stern puritanised christians

• Rejected pleasures

• A’laager mentality 

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES:

• Coloured people/descendants of mixed marriages lived in Cape Province

• Indians lived in the Natal Province

• Black Africans lived in the Afrikaner areas

• Afrikaners lived in the Transvaal and Orange Free State (useful for farming)

ECONOMIC POWER AND RIGHTS:

• Whites primarily were rich and had black servants

• Men and women worked together

• Produce was sold to the growing urban population

• Jobs later on segregated

• Blacks used as cheap labour for mining

• Two main parties; nationalists and united

• United Party was dominated by english speakers to maintain…