bantustans

• why were bantustans created?

  to deepen the apartheid regime

  aspirations could only be fulfullied within their own country
• what did the bantustans suggest about black south africans?

  they were not citizens of south africa and should therefore live in their own homeland where they can thrive in a society with their own traditions
• what law was the idea of banustans built on?

  bantu self governing act 1953
• what motivated verwoerd to create the bantustans?

  he would rather have a poor white country than a rich multi-racial country

  the decolonisation of other african countries
• how did the decolonisation of other african countries lead to the bantustans?

  it gave the illusion of decolonisation in south africa
• what were bantustans?

  african homelands periviously governed by african chiefs controlled by whites becoming independant
• what and when was the first bantustan?

  Transkei 1963
• when did transkei become independent?

  1976
• what was the response to the independence of transkei?

  no government recognised it

  UN condemned it

  poqo caused unrest in it