Botha's Reforms

Botha's Reforms

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Criticized by more right wing NP

5. 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

6. Repackaging same system

7. Legalized inter-racial marriage

8. Job reservation relaxed

9. Ended strict segregation of some amneties

10. Private schools desegregated