creation of townships in south africa apatheid

Jan van Riebeeck argued against the plan because he deemed it impractical. One of the earliest proposals by the VOC of creating a barrier between the Khoikhoi and the Dutch settlers was a trench between Salt and Liesbeeck rivers right up to False Bay. Settlers began to invent and implement ways of keeping the Khoikhoi away from the settlement, regulating their access and also using their labour. Thus, the most contentious issue at the Cape that contributed to the rise in tensions and eventual outbreak of war between the settlers and the Khoikhoi was the exclusion of the Khoikhoi from accessing land for grazing pastures. Khoikhoi herders were pushed out of the land surrounding the early settlement and were later pushed out of lands immediately surrounding the settlement. The earliest places of exclusion centred on land close to the castle and around the company settlement as access to it became restricted. Once the fort and the early settlement were established at the Cape, patterns of exclusion began to emerge as settlers drew imagined and physical boundaries between themselves and other people.

Creation of townships in south africa apatheid