Society began to crumble and people abandoned their homes and moved east
Popular opinion turned against South African apartheid.
Well from all the taxes the government uses to invest in the capital
Answer: One of the main reasons people moved west was for the land. There was lots of land, good soil for farming, and it could be bought at a cheap price. There were many different opportunities to get rich, such as: logging, mining, and farming that could not be done in the east.