26. Repression and resistance

Oppression and resistance in South Africa

This map is part of the Komitee Southern Africa’s (KZA) educational folder titled ‘This is Apartheid.’ Apartheid was a system that enforced racial segregation, separating people into categories such as Bantus, Coloureds, Asians, and Whites. Black people residing in ‘white areas’ – even if their families had lived there for generations – were evicted from these areas to ten Bantustans, (shaded plus inset map). However, this racist utopian ideal of a ‘segregated development’ failed in the end..