Apartheid Law: The Causes Of Urbanization In South Africa

ABSTRACT

The rate of urbanisation has been very rapid since the apartheid era. South Africa is now faced with

Table of Contents
ABSTRACT 1
1. INTRODUCTION 3
2. CAUSES OF URBANISATION 4
2.1 South African Apartheid History 4
2.1.2 Late 19th and early 20th Century 4
2.1.2 Apartheid Laws after World II 5
2.1.3 Post-Apartheid Laws 5
2.1.4 Summary of Effects caused by the Apartheid Era 6
3. URBANISATION AND MIGRATION DRIVING FACTORS 7
4. REPERCUSSIONS ASOCIATED WITH URBANISATION 8
5. POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS URBANISATION EFFECTS 8
6. REFERENCES 10

1. INTRODUCTION

Urbanisation results from an increase in population and an increase in development of urban areas, which leads to migration of people from rural areas to urban areas to seek a better lifestyle.

Due to the apartheid history of South Africa, people of colour

CAUSES OF URBANISATION
2.1 South African Apartheid History
2.1.2 Late 19th and early 20th Century

The main cause of urbanisation started in 1867 with the discovery of diamonds and gold in 1884. This lead to rapid industrialisation within the country and created a need for a rapid creation of a very large task force. Early on the labour came from African states and Mozambique mostly and later workers were recruited from Malwai, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Botswana.

Due to the large increase in people of colour for labour needs, white leaders sought to restrict rural-urban migration, this started the apartheid system and dominated the South African society for up to a decade and formed the spatial planning framework. The government had laws implemented to prevent migration and to ensure the large number of people of colour would not be able over through the white leaders.

As early as from the late 19th and early 20th century, laws encouraging racial segregation, preventing people from owning land, preventing people to live where they wished, preventing people being educated and developing