GEOG 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Diepsloot, Kibera, De Beers

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Geography (GEOG)
• Course: GEOG 002
• Professor: dobbins

Document Summary

African cities are growing much faster than rural areas. As the gold rush happened, and it was still dutch controlled but would soon become. An area that was designed for much fewer people now has 80-100 thousand people. An official policy of racial segregation that shaped social relations in south africa from 1948 until 1994. Grand apartheid: homelands: where all black south africans had to live, most stringent afrikaneers believed south africa could be broken up. Meso apartheid: actual division of urban space, every part of the city was designated as a white space or a colored space or a black space. Petite apartheid jim crow laws: restrooms would be designated, facilities, better facilities tended to be for whites. Most townships are still segregated even though there aren"t laws for it. Christian schools have been a force of integration. Founded by cecil rhodes in south africa. Throughout most of the 20th century, debeers controlled 90% of the diamond market.