The first cornerstone of apartheid was the Population Registration Act of 1950, which:
a. distributed governmental benefits on the basis of occupational and residential status.
b. prompted arrests of Africans for failing to comply with residential segregation policies.
c. resulted in rampant bribing of government officials to obtain legal citizenship status.
d. legally required all Africans to carry detailed registration papers at all times.
Question 2
Pierre van den Berghe (1978) referred to the South African sociopolitical system as a Herrenvolk democracy. What did he mean by this?
a. A state in which black Africans and Indians are macro-segregated while whites are micro-segregated
b. A state in which most whites live in urban neighborhoods with interspersed, but separate, black neighborhoods
c. A state that provides most democratic features of political rule to whites while ruling blacks dictatorially
d. A state with stark ethnic divisions and heated debates between political parties
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