TITLE

South African apartheid: A socio-spatial problem

AUTHOR(S)
Davis Jr, DeWitt
PUB. DATE
September 1992
SOURCE
Focus;Fall92, Vol. 42 Issue 3, p12
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Discusses how South Africa's socio-spatial apartheid has prevented a more equal sharing of land and has impeded economic, physical, political and social development for the entire country. Repeal of population Registration Act of 1950; The abolishing of apartheid; How to resolve the group areas and homelands; Group Areas Act of 1966; Government ploys to maintain segregation; African ethnic groups in 1980; African population of non-independent homelands in 1991; More.
ACCESSION #
9307020032

Tags: APARTHEID -- South Africa

 

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