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Unit on Apartheid Papers Unit on Apartheid Papers No. 12/70 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS* April 1970 THIS IS APARTHEID FACTS AND FIGURES ON SOUTH AFRICA (with special reference to racial discrimination) APARTHEID DAY 3Y DAY SCME PERTINENT STATEMENTS * All material in these notes and documents may be freely reprinted. Acknowledgement, together with a copy of the publication containing the reprint, would be appreciated. CONTENTS Fage FACTS AND FIGURES CN SOUTH AFRICA (with special reference to racial discrimination) 1 1 Population 1 2-9 African Reserves 1 1'" -13 Segregation and forced removals 3 14-37 Salaries c, wages taxes and government expenditure k 38 52 Health and medical services 11 53-59 Education Ik 6 -65 Social disruption 16 66 Repression l8 6T-69 Censorship 18 7C-72 Militaryestablishment 19 73 Police Force 2C Tk South African Airways 2C 75 Immigration 2C 76 Diplomats 2C 77-79 Foreign investment 21 APARTHEID DAY BY DAY 22 Sr.ME PERTINENT STATEMENTS 26 FACTS AND FIGURES ON SOUTH AFRICA (with special reference to racial discrimination) Population 1 19.69 2&.,ÍL?íl?Ü!? Mid-Year^ Estimate^ i Number P§Í..S. e2Í Whites 3,c8c,159 3,728, c00 19 Coloured Persons 1,5C9,053 1,959, c00 10 Asians 591,000 3 Africans 10,927,922 13,3^0,000 68 Total I59 99^,18l 19,618, ce0 ice African Reserves 2 According to the South African Government , the Africans who constitute sixty-eight per cent of the population have rights only in the scattered reserves ("homelands 1') which are now less than twelve per cent of the area of the country and will eventually be expanded to cover thirteen per cent. It claims that the rest of the country is a nwhite area". 3 The Government claims that the Africans constitute eight or nine "nations" and that the reserves are their "homelands". These "homelands" constitute scattered pieces of land 9 as follows: lMumber 01 separate pieces Total area Population of land in the of the reserve Ethnic_ £tcu£) (iq6o r.pr.qus) reserve. .__,.__ jfin rnprgen}___ Xhosa 3,c45,ce0 2 (Transkei) 3,980,647 17 (Ciskei) i,C35,903 Zulu 2,867, ce0 29 3,585,212 Swazi 334, c00 3 519/C57 North Sotho 971, ccc 3 1,947,277 South Sotho ("Witzieshoek) 1,283, c00 1 50, ce0 Tswana 1,149,000 19 4,33C,135 Tsonga (Shangaan) 511, ce0 k 890,716 Venda 246,000 3 935,800 in_of_Statist ics_ 1/ Republic of South Africa , Ml.leit > ?_/ Reply to a question by the Deputy Minister of Bantu Development. ~~House qf_Assembly Debates (Hansard), 7 February ±969, cols. 32C-321. 3/ ..-™.^.«- 2 k Only 591C0,CC0,5 9ICO, CCO, or about thirty-nine per cent 5 of the Africans live in the reserves; the remainder live in the so-called white areas • 5 During the no confidence debate in the House of Assembly in February 1969^ the Leader of the Opposition, Sir de Villiers Graaff said that the standard of living of the African people in the reserves had either remained static or had fallen in the last fifteen or sixteen years. He recalled that the Tomlinson Commission had estimated in the mid-fifties that the income per head in the reserves was 48 rand ($67.20): of this 25*8 rand ($36.10) was earned in the reserves and the remainder was obtained from people working outside the reserves. Dr. Adendorff had estimated that at present the income per head was 53 rand ($74.20) of which 22 rand ($30, 80) was earned in the reserves. Taking the value of money into account, the standard of livingof the people has fallen. 6 In the last six years, new jobs in industry have been created for less than one thousand Africans in all the reserves in South Africa. 7 More than forty per cent of the economically active men in the reserves are absent at any given time 5 working in the mines , factories,, farms and homes in the "white areas". 8 During 1969 about 41,7CC Transkeian Africans were employed in the Transkei; 155 «ACO were away as migratory workers. of Department of Geography at h/ Dr. P. Smitj head the the Africa Institute ? at the Congress of the Association of Geography Education, July 1969. Johannesburg July Reported in The__Star 9 weekly 9 9 12 1969. 5/ House of^ As^embly^_Del)ates_ (Hansard) , 3 February 1969? col. 16. Sir de Leader of Opposition. of_ Assembly 6/ Villiers Graaff 5 the House^ Debates (Hansard), 3 February 1969^ col. 28 of of Geography at the Africa Institute 9 7/ Dr. P. Smit 5 head the Department at the Congress of the Association of Geography Education, July 1969. Johannesburg July Reported in The^Sjtar, weekly 9 9 12 1969. 8/ Muriel Horrell, The African Reseryesjof _ South (1969) , p.119 3 9 The Transkei is so short of resources that of the Transkei Governments budget 2C,3H,CCC ($28 6CC) C, only 5,269,000 total of rand 9 483 9 in1969-197 rand ($79376^600) is derived from Transkeian sources. The rest is covered by grants from the Central Government. Segregation and forced removals 10 A Population Register is maintained by the Department of Interior , in terms of the Population Registration Act, in respect of every person in the country. All persons are classified into racial groups. Records in respect of Africans are maintained separately and cards for each person are filed numerically. Records of all others are maintained collectively. By 1968 c, the records covered an estimated 1C.276 million Africans and 7*5 million others. 11 The Group Areas Act^ condemned by the United Nations, provides for designation of areas for occupation by racial groups or sub-groups, and the forced removal of members of other racial groups to their "own" areas. The Minister of Community Development gave the following statistics for families ordered removed in terms of proclamations under the Group Areas Act: Whites ls3lBl s 3l8 Coloured persons 68,897 Indians 37 9 653 Chinese 899 12 More than half of the entire Indian population of South Africa has been forcibly removed as a result of the "group areas" decisions. It is estimated that two million Africans willhave to be resettled and rehoused in the province of Natal alone during the next five to ten years. 9/ Muriel Horrell, The African^Re serves of^Sputh^ Africa (1969) , p. 119 • IC/ Reply to question in the House of Assembly by the Minister of the Interior. S°_u.s.e Pi. Assembly_De bates (Hansard), 8 March 1968, cols. 177^-1775 • f (Hansard), February 11/ íiouse' o .As^n¿^Jébate.s 17 1970 ? col. 1181. Mr. Eric Winchester, M.P. 9 who made a three-year study of Group Areas and the Department of Community Development, stated that by September 1968 5 more than I,IOO,CCG people had been uprooted from their homes. Quoted in CivileRights;, newsletter of the Civil Rights League, Cape Town, 13 January 19TCT 12/ Ibid. k 13 tors. Helen Suzman, Progressive Farty Kember of Parliament 9 commented in February 19TC: " .•. when the (Group Areas) Act was introduced in 195C, the then kinister of the Interior, Dr. Donges, said that equal sacrifices would be required from all sections ... "But the truth of the matter is that white greed has motivated much of the implementation of the Act, so that the best business" and residential sites could be handed over to the Whites, £¡y^Í£iLL_3£§i^ Ik The average white income per head is about 95 rand ($133- CO) per month, with about 7 rand ($9«8o) Per tftonth for Africans. 15 According to the 1966 statistics of the South African Department of Internal Revenue, 2,lhG persons earned more than 2C,CCO rand (S2B,CCO) of taxable income* Of these, 2,738 were White, k Asian, 2 Coloured and 2 African 16 The number of persons assessed for income tax in 1966-1967 was as follows Whites 1,013,31 c Coloured persons 86,^75 Asians 32,k-9& Africans 2,C45 lj)/ The^Jptar, weekly, Johannesburg, 21 February 1970. April The paper added: lk/ FinajicialJ',a¿l 9 Johannesburg, l8 1969. !TThis is a shocking state of affairs which would never have been tolerated if the African community had the political influence or trade union power it could expect to have in a more advanced society, "Africans have no registered trade unions,, strikes for higher pay are forbidden , their productivity potential is ensnared by a complex mass of laws restricting education, employment and mobility ri and they have no say in the Government they are called on to finance. 15/ The_Star, daily, Johannesburg, l8hay 1968. 16/ Hous'e'of Assembly^ Debates (Hansard), k June 1968, cols. 6kkO-6kkl. 5 IT Africans 9 the poorest section of the population,, are taxed more heavily than whites. AllAfrican men over l8years have to pay a fixed annual tax of 2.5Crand ($3» 5-0* plus a local tax of 1rand ($1.40) for every dwelling hut or unit. They are also liable to tribal levies. Whites do not pay these taxes and levies AllAfricans are to income-tax if they earn more than rand liable ' 360 ($5-4). ("Whites do not pay income-tax on earnings less than 75 r; rand if single or I,CCO rand ifmarried). Africans get no tax relief for dependents. The taxes are deducted from salaries under the P.A.Y.E. system. Whites obtain refunds if the deductions are higher than the tax: the Africans are entitled to no refunds unless Mthe Secretary for Bantu Administration is satisfied that the circumstances of any particular case would warrant a refund 11.
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