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Burger's Daughter (Nadine Gordimer)

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The Black Homeland Citizenship Act 1971 which changed the status of the inhabitants of the homelands so that they were no longer citizens of South Africa, meaning they had none of the rights that came with citizenship such as the right to vote.

Starting in the 1960s, a more ambitious plan was devised and executed which called for territorial separation of blacks and whites along with violent police and army repression of any protests against the apartheid system -- including peaceful and non-violent protests. As described in Burger's Daughter, the penalties imposed on political protest against the white minority government were severe. During declared states of emergency, which continued intermittently, anyone could be detained without trial, and without the right to post bail for up to six months (Gordimer 29). After the apartheid system ended in 1990 and black politicians took political power, it was quickly c

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