What was the intention of the apartheid homelands in South Africa? to segregate the black population into independent states to create settlements for the white minority to return black cultural groups to their traditional homelands to reduce white flight and the expanding black ghettos to integrate residential areas of white and black populations

to return black cultural groups to their traditional homelands

Explanation:

Apartheid means 'separateness' in Afrikaans. It was a law or a policy to discriminate the people on the color of their skin. It was started by the Afrikaner Nationalist Party when they came to power in Africa in the year 1948.

The apartheid law was designed to create a restrictions based on the race and color of people. A new homeland was created for the black people by the Apartheid government where majority of the black people should move in order to prevent them from the living in the urban areas of the South Africa. They were provided with a homeland or Bantustans and they had to move there no matter what their cultures were.

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