4. Policies of Smuts and Hertzog (1910–1948)
The Union of South Africa was declared in 1910 and after this, successive white governments enacted policies that gave control of the land and economy to a white minority, entrenched urban segregation, and controlled black movement. The first Union cabinetAwaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth"(Plaatjie, S.T. (1916)....
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