How is it that whites were able to control south africa and zimbabwe when they were 2% of the population?

Question

How is it that the MINORITIES dominated the MAJORITIES?

Answer 1

The whites had the guns, money and connections to world superpowers. Thus, they controlled the black majority to follow what they want.

Answer 2

lower back in relating to the year 1620 there have been very few human beings in South Africa. at the instant different Dutch farmers (Boers ) settled a small strip of coastal land. Their farms grew to improve into the main efficient interior the international. The English tried to take over, the Boers resisted (the Boer Wars) yet have been pushed deeper into Africa. a lot of minerals and helpful metals have been got here across in south Africa. exertions became needed to run the mines and persons got here from everywhere in the contininet searching for jobs. So relatively the farmers and the mine vendors controlled the ecomomy. no longer too a lot diverse than united statesa. at present. Africa isn't a rustic. it relatively is a continient composed of approximately fifty 5 international places.

Answer 3

guns and violence..now in Zimbabwe people are starving because they don't know how to farm..when the whites ram the farms there was food for all..Zimbabwe used to Rhodesia..in the 60s

Answer 4

Maybe the white people were more educated, and had more technology than the other races when they were there, and so those were the people who had the know how and capability to control the country.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Look at the weapons of the time. whites have always had the better weapons. You can't fight with spears when the other guys have boom sticks.

Answer 7

money, education and technology...

it pretty much wins everytime... regaurdless of who or where it is...

and if those with the money, education and technology don't want to share it... then they can pretty much ruin the country if they want... and in much of Africa, they wanted too...

Answer 8

It didn't last.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_South_Africa_in_the_apartheid_era#Apartheid_from_day_to_day

Apartheid was implemented by the law. The Reservation of Separate Amenities Act specifically allowed government to provide different levels of amenities for the different races. The following restrictions were not only social but also strictly enforced by law.

For example:

South Africa's national flag, from 1928-1994. The symbolism of the flag defines South Africa as an inherently white nation, recognizing the country's British and Dutch ethnic roots, but offering no symbolic recognition of the black majority.

South Africa's national flag, from 1928-1994. The symbolism of the flag defines South Africa as an inherently white nation, recognizing the country's British and Dutch ethnic roots, but offering no symbolic recognition of the black majority.

* Non-whites were not allowed to run businesses or professional practices in those areas designated as "white South Africa" (i.e. all economically significant towns and commercial areas) without a permit. They were supposed to move to the black "homelands" and set up businesses and practices there.

* Transport and civil facilities were segregated. Black buses, known as "green" buses because they had a green marker on the front windscreen, stopped at black bus stops and white buses at white ones. 1st and 2nd class train carriages were for whites only. 3rd class carriages were for blacks only.

* Hospitals and ambulances were segregated. The white hospitals were generally of a very good standard with well-educated staff and ample funds, while black hospitals were seriously understaffed and under funded, with many black areas without a hospital at all.[2]

* Blacks were excluded from living or working in white areas, unless they had a pass — nicknamed the dompas ("dumb pass" in Afrikaans). Only blacks with "Section 10" rights (those who had migrated to the cities before World War II) were excluded from this provision. Strictly speaking, whites also required passes in black areas.

o A pass was issued only to a black person with approved work. Spouses and children had to be left behind in non-white areas. Many white households employed blacks as domestic workers, who were allowed to live on the premises — often in small rooms external to the family home.

o A pass was issued for one magisterial district (usually one town) confining the holder to that area only.

o Being without a valid pass made a person subject to immediate arrest and summary trial, often followed by deportation to the person's homeland and prosecution of the employer. Police vans patrolled the "white" areas to round up the "illegal" blacks, causing enormous harm to the economy by removing willing workers from employers who were chronically short of labour.

* Black people were not allowed to employ white people. Although trade unions for black and "coloured" (mixed race) workers had existed since the early 20th century, it was not until the 1980s reforms that membership of a trade union by black workers became legal.

* In the 1970s each black child's education cost the state only a tenth of each white child's. The Bantu Education Act specifically aimed to teach blacks only the basic skills they would need in working for whites. Higher education was provided in separate universities and colleges after 1959. Very few places were provided for blacks and all the existing and reputable universities remained white.

* Black police were not allowed to arrest whites.

Blacks were not allowed to buy hard liquor (although this was relaxed later).

Black areas rarely had plumbing or electricity.

Public beaches were racially segregated, with the best ones reserved for whites (white beaches were typically developed; whereas black beaches were situated in remote areas with little or no development). Public swimming pools and libraries were segregated, and there were practically no pools nor libraries for blacks. Pedestrian bridges, drive-in cinema parking spaces, graveyards, parks, pedestrian crossings, public toilets and taxis were also segregated.

Cinemas and theatres in "white areas" (i.e. all significant towns and economic areas) were not allowed to admit blacks. There were practically no cinemas or theatres or restaurants or hotels in black areas. Most restaurants and hotels in white areas were not allowed to admit blacks except as staff, unless the government had given specific prior permission (such as when African diplomats needed to be accommodated). Black Africans were prohibited from attending "white" churches under the Churches Native Laws Amendment Act (1957). This was, however, never rigidly enforced, and churches were one of the few places races could mix without the interference of the law.

After 1948, sex and marriage between the races were prohibited. A white driver was not allowed to have a black in the front of the car if that person was of a different sex.

Taxation was unequal — the yearly income at which tax became payable by blacks was 360 rand (30 rand a month), while the white threshold was much higher, at 750 Rand (62.5 rand per month). On the other hand, the taxation rate for whites was considerably higher than that for blacks.

Most blacks were stripped of their South African citizenship when the "homelands" were declared "independent". They thus were no longer able to apply for South African passports. Eligibility for a passport had, in any case, been difficult. A passport was a privilege, not a right, and the government saw fit not to grant many applications by blacks.

Apartheid pervaded South African culture, as well as the law. This was reinforced in many media, and the lack of opportunities for the races to mix in a social setting entrenched social distance between people.

Answer 9

brains and a lot of drive!!