White entrepreneurs to be given contracts in the ‘homelands’

Updated: 30 Sep 2019

White entrepreneurs to be given contracts in the ‘homelands’

Prime Minister B J Vorster announces that White entrepreneurs will be given long-standing contracts in the 'homelands' to speed up economic development. This effectively further disadvantages the many already disenfranchised Blacks who had their South African citizenship cancelled, by actively encouraging economic exploitation of them, based on their race and their need for work while restricted to a labour pool 'homeland'.

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01Nelson Mandela Foundation,"7 February 1969",From: Nelson Mandela Foundation,[Online],Available at: www.nelsonmandela.org,[Accessed on: 17 January 2014]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). White entrepreneurs to be given contracts in the ‘homelands’. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012113

South African History Online (2011) 'White entrepreneurs to be given contracts in the ‘homelands’', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012113 (Accessed: 10 November 2026).

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"White entrepreneurs to be given contracts in the ‘homelands’." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012113. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

South African History Online. "White entrepreneurs to be given contracts in the ‘homelands’." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012113.