How did apartheid create and enforce divisions based on ideas of “we and they”?
Source 1
The Population Registration Act(No. 30) provided the basis for separating the population of South Africa into different races.
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Source 2
All South Africans were issued an Identity number which indicated the population to which they had been allocated.
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Source 3
Many stories from District Six are about ‘Coloured’ people who were forced to leave the suburb due to the Group Areas Act.Nomvuyo writes of her experiences as a young black girl in this area that was demolished by the apartheid state.
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Source 4
During apartheid, many black South Africans had two names. One was the name that they were given t by their parents and was in their own language. The other was a European name that their employers would refer to them by. In the poem, My Name, Magoleng wa Selepe writes about the effects of this.
