Separate development

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Separate development was the policy adopted by the South African government in 1958 by Hendrik Verwoerd, leader of the National Party (NP). The NP stated that this policy replaced Apartheid, while opponents argued that this policy was merely an extension of Apartheid.

The SA government embarked in this policy due to wide international criticism of Apartheid. Through separate development the NP attempted to identify different race groups, assign them a specific area and then granted self-governance to that area, called a homeland. For example the Zulus were assigned the KwaZulu homeland.

In reality, the main features of Apartheid, such as racial segregation and oppression of black people, were still prevalent in the policy of separate development even though the NP claimed that black people had equal opportunities to whites within their homelands.^[1] Most of the power, however, still lay with the white South African government who could overrule any legislation passed by the leaders of the homelands.^{[citation needed]}