Apartheid

• Apartheid (Afrikaans: “apartness”)

• Name of the policy that governed relations between the white minority and the nonwhite majority of South Africa

• 20th century - name was first used about 1948

– National Party

• Dictated where South Africans, on the basis of their race , could live and work , the type of education they could receive, and whether they could vote .

• Events in the early 1990s marked the end of legislated apartheid , but the spatial segregation, and social and economic effects remained deeply entrenched .

Whites Indians Colored Blacks or Native

• The apartheid city was created as a response to the urban crises of the 1940s. In order to protect and enhance the interests of its white constituency the National Party government drew on past policies of racial segregation and spatial management to re structure and entrench more deeply the racial city form .