ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some detail one particular country, South Africa, outlining the government's long-term policy and shows how involuntary migration is a by-product of this policy. The present South African system can be seen as a society based on color castes. The fact of European background, European culture, or "European blood" is of secondary importance. South African historians have been apt to see the primary reason for the emigration as the reaction of freedom-loving, God-fearing people to the culture change imposed on them by the British administration. The basis of population displacement in South Africa is the government policy outlined, which envisions contiguous geographical states organized on an ethnic basis. The case of Chief Moseki's people represents both organized resistance and official criticism of government policy. The notion of racial inequality was present in the early days of South African history, it was invariably cloaked in a statement of cultural and religious backwardness of the non-Whites.
