Crossroads Of Oppression's End: Liberty Or Greater Tyranny-Part Four South Africa Session Two

 

Crossroads Of Oppression's End: Liberty Or Greater Tyranny-Part Four South Africa Session Two 

Most people have misconceptions when it comes to the Cape nation. It is a common erroneous misconception to think that South Africa had the same segregation issues as America did. It was actually dissimilar.

Black Africans were gradually assigned to live in these ten homelands, then called Bantustans. The first four homelands were granted nominal independence by 1981. The other six homelands were self-governing. In 1992, 48 percent of all black South Africans and 1 percent of all other racial groups in the entire South African region, lived in the homelands. It comprised only about one-seventh of the total land area of the country.

It must be understood that nearly half of all Blacks did not live in proper South Africa. They lived in areas which were autonomous and had home rule. When Apartheid ended in 1994, ten homelands were re-incorporated into South Africa.

From nearly 15-20 years, Blacks living in Bantustans were deemed as living in foreign territories. So obviously they could not make illegal entry into proper South Africa. The Blacks who were in proper South Africa lived in informal settlements, or "squatter camps," close to cities where they either worked or hoped to work.