... force of cheap labor. The Apartheid system also called for political segregation, restructuring the bureaucracy to include separate departments for each racial group. These departments included the Bantu Administration, Coloured Affairs, Indian Affairs, and the Community Development. Each department was staffed by National Party officials and controlled the separate bureaucratic process for each racial group ... most devastating aspects of the social engineering of Apartheid was its creation of the Bantu Education Act of 1953. This act tightened the segregation of the school system and re...

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... white-owned factories, farms, and mines, which did little to improve their lives. In a book about the subject of apartheid, the author describes the attitude of the colonial government: "The Bantu in the urban areas should be regarded as migratory citizens not entitled to political or social rights equal to those of whites" (Pomeroy, Apartheid, Imperialism, and African Freedom, 8). Apartheid continued ... will land them only a minimum wage job, if they receive a job at all. Africa: For Africans living in former colonies, living conditions are often sub-standard. They were refused a prop...

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... . The implementation of the policy, later referred to as "separate development," was made possible by the Population Registration Act of 1950, which put all South Africans into three racial categories: Bantu (black African), white, or Coloured (of mixed race). A fourth category, Asian (Indians and Pakistanis), was added later (2). This was the inception of the historical too of discrimination unleashed on the ... could also be termed as a plausible reason. The social structure at that time for the blacks was deplorable, they were assigned to low wage jobs only, had no access to education...

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