Question

What policy did the settlers decide to follow?

Answer 1

The settlers in Africa, especially in regions like Kenya, South Africa, and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), decided to follow a policy of racial segregation and white minority rule to maintain their dominance. This included:

• Discriminatory laws that restricted political, economic, and social rights of the Black majority.
• Land alienation, where fertile lands were taken from Africans and given to white settlers.
• Forced labor and low wages to exploit African workers while preserving settler wealth.
• In South Africa, this policy became formalized as Apartheid, enforcing strict racial separation.

These policies were intended to preserve the economic privileges and political control of the white settler minority at the expense of the African majority