The Treatment of Black Africans in South Africa in the 1930's and 1940's

The Treatment of Black Africans in South Africa in the 1930's and 1940's

In this essay I will be informing you on everything I know about the

treatment of black South Africans in the 1930's and 1940's. I will be

explaining how life was in the 1930's when they were under the

Afrikaner government. I will be explaining how the second world war

made them feel positive about their future and how things changed. I

will also be giving you a little of information on the Atlantic

Charter and how it also made people feel things were going to change.

I will try to make my points clear so you can understand what I might

have written.

In the 1930's the blacks were under the Afrikaner government. At this

time they were a lot of blacks in the cities and the Afrikaner hated

it and the blacks. So since they were in power they had the lead to do

anything. So they took this advantage and took the blacks to the

reserves (a place where blacks were put to live, to be separated from

the whites). They whites believed that blacks were culturally

different from whites and that they were a country people and are

supposed to live out in the villages or countryside's. The reserves

weren't even healthy for humans to live, and they had animal

conditions. The reserves amplified from 7% to 13.5%. The Afrikaner

then stopped the blacks from voting, because they knew that if they

had to vote they would be more likely to vote for a fellow black

person to lead them. This meant that the Afrikaner wouldn't exist or

even have any power over them. They basically choose them that they

had no voice or say about anything, that all they had to do is follow

and listen to the...

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...se they regained their

confidence and felt they could stand up for themselves because they

knew the government was weak at this time. Even if they worked in

mines it was all right because at the end of the day you would rather

work they're than live in the deadly reserves. The war made them think

of their heritage and encouraged them to be proud of their country,

their culture, their colour and most important language.

I also think that the ANC was quiet important because for once the

blacks had someone they could look up to, to speak out for them and to

protest for them. They also had some one they could count on to stand

up for them, this brought them confidence because they thought if

someone of our race can do it so can we. This revival was ready to

give more valuable control to black habitation than ever before.