GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: History Of South Africa
1 Dec 2016
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Brief history of south africa: settlement, resources, & the meeting. White" wealth built on exploited labor of non- whites". Pass laws (employer has to give you a letter to let you in the white" part of the city (before the 1940s) Descendants of the dutch created this legacy of apartheid. It is the official policy of racial segregation (1948- It is fundamentally a spatial project (manipulated space) Petty apartheid: apartheid operated at small scales separate benches, elevators, swimming pools, buses, parking spaces, universities, graveyards, hospitals. Within a classroom, whites will be surrounded by whites in universities and for blacks they probably wouldn"t be in university since the system made it hard to get there. Only can enter the white area as a laborer or providing a service. Indians or colored people live on land that"s not as great as the city. Displacement of black" (& other) communities to build white" neighborhoods: ex. ,
