Describe The Treatment of Black Africans in South Africa in the 1930's and 1940's

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MINIVER OLIVER 10.2

SOUTH AFRICA COURSE WORK:ESSAY 1

“Describe The Treatment of Black Africans in South Africa

 in the 1930’s and 1940’s”

In this essay I will be informing you on everything I know about the treatment of black South Africans in the 1930’s and 1940’s. I will be explaining how life was in the 1930’s when they were under the Afrikaner government. I will be explaining how the second world war made them feel positive about their future and how things changed. I will also be giving you a little of information on the Atlantic Charter and how it also made people feel things were going to change. I will try to make my points clear so you can understand what I might have written.

In the 1930’s the blacks were under the Afrikaner government. At this time they were a lot of blacks in the cities and the Afrikaner hated it and the blacks. So since they were in power they had the lead to do anything. So they took this advantage and took the blacks to the reserves (a place where blacks were put to live, to be separated from the whites). They whites believed that blacks were culturally different from whites and that they were a country people and are supposed to live out in the villages or countryside’s. The reserves weren’t even healthy for humans to live, and they had animal conditions. The reserves amplified from 7% to 13.5%. The Afrikaner then stopped the blacks from voting, because they knew that if they had to vote they would be more likely to vote for a fellow black person to lead them. This meant that the Afrikaner wouldn’t exist or even have any power over them. They basically choose them that they had no voice or say about anything, that all they had to do is follow and listen to them. For example the Afrikaner ordered them to build their black community far away from the city centres, they were to build their homes in the country sides were they had no hope or things to look forward to in life. The other segregationist laws enlarged the colour bar so that the supplementary expert jobs were kept for whites. The laws put more control on the movement of blacks into towns and they were like prisoners.

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In the 1940’s things started to get better for the black South Africans. They started to feel optimistic and confident because all the whites had gone to war, which meant they weren’t they was hardly anyone in the city, so this was a chance for the blacks to move back to the city and try to put their lives back on tracks. The fact that the whites were at war was a major break through for the blacks because the companies would need people to work there. Like the mining and manufacturing companies, they needed people to make all ...

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