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Bantustan - Life in the Bantustans | | Bantustan - Life in the Bantustans: Encyclopedia II - Bantustan - Life in the Bantustans | | The Bantustans were all extremely poor. Their economic deprivation was the deliberate result of government policies, as their boundaries were drawn to exclude valuable land and industries. Few local employment opportunities were available. Their single most important home-grown source of revenue was the provision of casinos and topless revue shows, which the National Party government had prohibited in South Africa proper as being "immoral". This provided a lucrative source of income for the local elite, who constructed megaresorts ...
See also:Bantustan, Bantustan - Creation of the Bantustans, Bantustan - Life in the Bantustans, Bantustan - Post-1994, Bantustan - List of Bantustans | | | Bantustan, Bantustan - Creation of the Bantustans, Bantustan - Life in the Bantustans, Bantustan - List of Bantustans, Bantustan - Post-1994, Black Homeland Citizenship Act, Bantustans in South West Africa, Indian reservation, Racial segregation, Volkstaat, Internal passport, Hukou, Propiska | | |
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Bantustan - Life in the Bantustans
The Bantustans were all extremely poor. Their economic deprivation was the deliberate result of government policies, as their boundaries were drawn to exclude valuable land and industries. Few local employment opportunities were available. Their single most important home-grown source of revenue was the provision of casinos and topless revue shows, which the National Party government had prohibited in South Africa proper as being "immoral". This provided a lucrative source of income for the local elite, who constructed megaresorts such as Sun City in the homeland of Bophuthatswana.
However, the homelands were only kept afloat by massive subsidies from the South African government; for instance, by 1985 in Transkei, 85% of the homeland's income came from direct transfer payments from Pretoria. The Bantustans' governments were invariably corrupt and little wealth trickled down to the local populations, who were forced to seek employment as so-called "guest workers" in South Africa proper. Millions of people had to work in often appalling conditions, away from their homes for months at a time. – for example, 65% of Bophuthatswana's population worked outside the 'homeland'.
Not surprisingly, the homelands were extremely unpopular among the urban black population, many of whom lived in squalor in slum housing. Their working conditions were often equally poor, as they were denied any significant rights or protections in South Africa proper. The allocation of individuals to specific homelands was often quite arbitrary. Many individuals assigned to homelands did not live in or originate from the homelands to which they were assigned, and the division into designated ethnic groups often took place on an arbitrary basis, particularly in the case of people of mixed ethnic ancestry.
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