The institutionalization of such discriminatory practices has …
Years: 1888 - 1899
The institutionalization of such discriminatory practices has produced in Kimberley the highest rate of incarceration and the lowest living standards for urban blacks in the Cape Colony.
It also marks a major turnabout in the British administration of law.
The previous official policy that all people irrespective of color be treated equally, while still accepted in legal theory, is now largely ignored in judicial practice.
South Africa's first industrial city has thus developed into a community in which discrimination has become entrenched in the economic and social order, not because of racial antipathies formed on the frontier, but because of the desire for cheap labor.
Locations
Groups
- Khoikhoi
- Indian people
- Sotho (Basotho or Basuto) people
- Swazi
- Zulu people
- Xhosa people
- Shona people
- Afrikaners
- Boers
- Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
- Cape Colony, British
- Zululand
- Zulu, Kingdom of the
- Zimbabwe, Ndebele Kingdom of
- South African Republic (the Transvaal)
- Swaziland, Kingdom of
- Swaziland, Kingdom of
- Natal Colony, British
- Orange Free State, Republic of the (Boer Republic)
- Basutoland
- British South Africa Company (SAC)
- Rhodesia, Company rule in
