Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Botha's Reforms
- Reasons:
- Apartheid system collapsing
- Needed more labour in white areas
- Blacks lived in 'homelands'
- Unsustainable
- Majority of population on 13% of land
- Economically dependent on gov
- Economically dependent on gov
- Wanted to sustain Apartheid
- Pass Laws breakdown
- Formally instated by gov in 1950s
- Controlled movements of blacks
- Became difficult & expensive to enforce
- SA economy needed quick, easy black labour
- Passes made blacks' movement from homelands to white areas difficult & slow
- 1986
- Urban Bantu Authorities Act
- 1983
- Altering existing act
- Local gov structures could be elected in townships
- Gave little real power
- Still remained under white control
- Immediately resisted
- Strikes, boycotts, violent clashes
- Criticized by more right wing NP
- Tricameral Parliament
- Divided in 3
- White (majority)
- Coloured (about half)
- Indian (about quarter)
- Meant to be proportionate to population
- Impossible for non-whites to overrule whites
- Whites could vito non-whites' rulings
- No black represetation
- Only Urban Bantu Authorities Act
- Nov 1983
- Repackaging same system
- Legalized inter-racial marriage
- Job reservation relaxed
- Ended strict segregation of some amneties
- Private schools desegregated