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I: Building crèches at the grassroots level in earlier Bantu area
As little as 13% of South Africa’s geographical areas were designated for the black population during the apartheid time. These areas, “Bantustans” were characterized by great increase in population, erosion, lack of water, too little grazing area, epidemics and social disintegration. Even today the areas have these characteristics. These Bantustans were given their own administration and attempts were made to create a specific national consciousness within them. The idea was that the black Africans in time should lose their South African citizenship and only be able to claim rights within their Bantustan.