1.1 Refer to Source 1A.
1.1.1 In your own words define the term apartheid.
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1.1.2 Use your own knowledge and explain some of the laws as mentioned in the source
that kept blacks in a subordinate position in the workplace.
1.1.3 How, according to the source, did the capitalist employers gain from the apartheid
laws?
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(1 x 2) (2
1.1.4 Use the source and your own knowledge to explain what Prime Minister H.F.
Verwoerd meant when he said, "that if blacks got the same education as whites it would
mislead them..."
ADDENDUM:
SOURCE 1A
This source deals with some of the reasons for the implementation of Apartheid and was
taken from History of Southern Africa by K. Shillington.
In the words of one of the architects of apartheid, H.F. Verwoerd, Minister of Bantu
Administration, and later Prime Minister (1958-66
) there was no place for blacks in
the
European community above the level of
labourer. To offer blacks the same education
as
whites, he argued, would mislead them
by showing them the green pastures of
European society which they were not
allowed to graze. The apartheid laws were
not
only the racist views of Afrikaner
nationalists, but some of them also had specific
advantages for capitalist employers
who paid blacks low wages and made huge
profits.
Blacks, who formed the bulk
of the working class, were kept in a subordinate position
with laws such as the Industrial
Reconciliation Act, Mine and Workers
Act and the
Civilised Labour Policy. The
National Party was returned to office with
greatly increased
majorities in the general
elections of the 1950s and 1960s.
LATIVITY 2
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