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53 years ago this Wednesday, Britain started the process of returning the Simonstown military base to South African control. This is the sort of country it was returned to then..... 4/7/1955. Britain said it would return the Simonstown military base to South Africaby 31/3/1957, whilst retaining the rights to use the base. 1954, Dr Voerword, who in 1950 hadbecome Minister of Native Affairs, began introducing further discriminatoryapartheid legislation. He enacted the Native Resettlement Act, empowering theWhite government to remove Black settlements that were deemend to be too closeto White areas. It was bulldozed and the area redeveloped as a White district.The first Black settlement moved under this legislation was Sophiatown, in the centreof Johannesburg. Trades Unions in South Africa were ordered to segregate intoBlack and White sections, to end joint bargaining by workers of differentraces. He also introduced the Bantu Education Act, taking the education ofAfricans out of the hands of church missionarieswho Verwoerd found too liberal. More details of Apartheid and its eventual downfall at http://fooddeserts.org/images/000SouthAfrica.htm Dr Hillary J. Shaw Director and Senior Research Consultant Shaw Food Solutions Newport Shropshire TF10 8QE www.fooddeserts.org ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1