Research Questions Part IV

A. Explain who owned all the businesses and natural resources?
answer A: The whites owned all the businesses and the best land for growing and harvesting natural resources.
B. Who did all the manual Labor?
answer B: The Blacks did all the work for the whites.
C. Did the Black workers earn good wages compared to the whites?
answer C: No, the blacks go very poor wages much less than the whites earned.
D. Who got the most benefit from Apartheid?
answer D: The whites were the people that got the most benefit from Apartheid.

8. How did the government create Apartheid?

A. Could black South Africans live anywhere they wanted?
answer A: No, the whites demanded that blacks can only own 8% of the country. the whites then passed a law saying black people could work in white areas but earn very low wages.
B. Explain passbooks.
answer B: Passbooks were what we consider passports today, but in South Africa they were used in a different then how we use them here. Passbooks mostly carried by blacks, with there name, address, photograph and their employment record. If the blacks were found without their passbook they were arrested.
C. What jobs were available for Black South Africans?
answer C: There were a lot of jobs for the blacks but they paid very low wages. Most of the blacks did manual labor type jobs like working in factories, mines, and on farms. Women and children were servants, or maids in whites homes.
D. What kind of education opportunities were available to blacks?
answer D: The type and quality of their education was very poor compared to the whites and they did not have many opportunities they mostly taught themselves.

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