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Factors for the growth of African nationalism in South Africa.

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Factors for the growth of African nationalism in South Africa.
(a) The role of the Christian religion whose ideals encouraged Africans to fight for equality.
(b) The exposure of Africans to severe economic exploitation like land alienation and causing them to be
subjected to forced labour on Afrikaner farms.
(c) The influence of Pan-Africanism in South Africa as early as the 19th century when people like Rev. Dube founded the Ohlange Institute to educate fellow Africans in South Africa.
(d) The introduction of racial discrimination enshrined in the apartheid law of 1948 convinced Africans that only freedom could save them.
(e) The Acquisition of western education by many Africans like Rev. Dube, Walter Sisulu and Nelson Mandela
enabled them to articulate their grievances more forcefully.
(f) The return of the ex-servicemen after the second world war which exposed the myth of the white supremacy making Africans ready to fight them.