Apartheid’s hostel system created demographically skewed enclaves prone to conflict

Evidence

As of the 1980s, the KwaZulu homeland headed by Chief Buthelezi consisted of twenty-nine major and forty-one minor tracts of land scattered through the hinterland of Durban. KwaZulu exported labor to urban and industrial areas throughout Natal, the larger region pivoting on coastal Durban and encompassing all of KwaZulu. It also sent substantial numbers of migrant workers to the Rand, around Johannesburg. Many of its emigrants (especially in the Rand) lived in hostels supplied by their employers, frequently within townships established for Africans under apartheid. As all-male groups in segregated quarters, they repeatedly clashed with township people, especially young males. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 591

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 591
• XREF: connects to: Divide-and-rule ethnoracial fragmentation long predated formal apartheid — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1481; Medieval Jewish ghettos were spatial isolation with protective and oppressive dual effects; Preindustrial cities segregated outsiders by lodging rather than by restricting movement (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Demographic disparities between neighboring peoples generate conflict and migration pressure #corroborates (0.78)
• Excessive social segregation between groups raises genocide likelihood #expands (0.76) — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 0
• Preindustrial cities segregated outsiders by lodging rather than by restricting movement #complicates (0.75)
• Medieval Jewish ghettos were spatial isolation with protective and oppressive dual effects #exemplifies (0.73)
• Divide-and-rule ethnoracial fragmentation long predated formal apartheid #qualifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1481