Life under Apartheid deteriorated for most Africans from 1950 to 1970 as the amount of money spent on law and order increased and

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Many Africans lives got worse between the 1950s and the 1970s because of white supremacy, for example, the pass laws. Which meant blacks having to carry pass books around all the time. This is just one of the “Apartheid Laws” which I will be exploring and introducing in the 1950s in my first paragraph. Africans lives didn’t only get worse because of white supremacy but also by “Separate (but equal) Development”, for example the Bantustans Act, where the different tribes were split into small groups around South Africa. I will be explaining the setting up of this, and what it was like to live there in the 1970s and that in the 1970s Africans still continued to live in terrible conditions, for an example of their poor living conditions. Africans had only 13% of the land where as the whites had 87% meaning it was very crowded for black Africans.

In the 1950s, many Apartheid laws were introduced the most important one being The Group Areas Act” Which was when South Africa was divided into different areas where different race groups could live. This meant that 84% of the land was given to the whites, even though they were only given 15% of the total population. Blacks were only given 14% of the land, even thought they made up over 80% of the population. This changed lives of black Africans because they had small areas to live in meaning it would be very overcrowded. This was like the whites who had a large amount of space to live in. This was sign if white ‘supremacy’.

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   The pass laws were also important, because it restricted blacks from having the freedom of movement, having a big affect on blacks meaning they had to carry ‘pass books’ all the time. If they did not have their passes they could be arrested.

   The Bantu Education Act changed lives of Africans because white children were taught subjects for example history, maths, science etc. So they can be doctors lawyers etc. However, black children, were only taught subjects such as wood works and metal work etc. So they can be workers in factories or down the mines. This meant ...

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