Strengthening Apartheid: Reforms

WAS REFORM NECESSARY?

‘Reform was necessary - reform to survive’ - Botha

REASON 1 - ECONOMIC PRESSURES:

• Growth of wages

• Bantustans are costly

• GDP increasing

• Cost of living increasing

• DEBT

• Government spending increasing

• Inflation increasing

REASON 2 - DIVIDED PARTIES (NO UNITY):

• 100,000 shortfalls

• white/skilled/educated

• Lack of workers

• Reunify fragmented NP

• Apartheid facing significant criticism

• Problems at home/war

REASON 3 - CULTURE OF CORRUPTION:

• Army problems

• Conscription problems

• Militarism increasing

• Shortfall in recruitment

REASON 4 - COST OF DEFENCE:

• Increase in GDP

STRUCTURAL REFORMS TO APARTHEID

ARMED FORCES RECRUITMENT:

• Non-whites integrated into armed forces

• Integrated forces seemed more tolerant

• Non-racial actions

SOCIAL LAWS - PETTY APARTHEID:

• Bus travel (desegregated (not on trains))
  Relaxation of travel for bantustans

• Relaxation of nature of education for black communities

INFLUX CONTROL - RIEKERT COMMISSION: 

• Africans qualified to live in areas should receive various types of preferential treatment

• Half of a million of africans would qualify

• Existing restrictions would be more rigorously enforced/extended

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