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Why did the government of south africa created homelands

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to slow the movement of black South Africans toward urban areas

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In order to control black South Africans, the South African government created arbitrary regions called homelands.

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The Apartheid government made it legal for Blacks to become citizens of their independent Bantustans. The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act of 1970 was passed, which allowed Blacks living throughout South Africa as legal citizens in the homeland designated for their particular ethnic group.




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