Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1948 the Nationalist Government, under Prime Minister Malan and later Strijdom, has passed heavy restrictive legislation designed to protect South African whites from non-European influence. No African (black) may own land outside the Reserves, nor is he allowed to move from one area to another without written permission from the Government. The Population Registration Act provides a Register of the population in order to distinguish clearly between racial groups. The Bantu Education Act of 1949 imposed strict restrictions on the education of blacks in the Union, carefully segregating schools and curricula...
Apartheid's ultimate goal is the complete separation of the African and European ways of life, from the ground up. In education this implies strict segregation. The only remaining nonsegregated universities are at Capetown and Witwatersrand (Johannesburg). At these "open" universities, blacks and whites mix freely and accrue mutual benefits in understanding each other's needs and problems. There have been no racial tensions in Capetown or Witwatersrand, nor have either whites or blacks expressed desires for segregation...
...Strijdom Government, in determination to erase the last traces of racial mixing, is about to end the "open" status of these universities. Dr. T. B. Davie, Principal of the University of Capetown, described Strijdom's aim as trying "to establish and perpetuate an inferior status in the African in relation to the European." All evidence seems to corroborate this charge...
Strijdom has publicized his plan to build new schools, "tribal colleges," for blacks and whites. But the estimated Government subsidization for the white colleges more than triples that for the Africans. Moreover, the curricula imposed on the "African" schools prohibits blacks from being admitted to European (Continental) universities. The policy of rigid educational segregation does not merely separate cultures; it serves to keep the African blacks socially, academically, and economically inferior. To insure white supremacy, Strijdom is determined to make it impossible for blacks to improve their status...
...they were, however, Chief Justice Warren's dictum of May 1954, that "separate facilities are inherently unequal," applies even more to South Africa than it does to the American South. While Strijdom's right hand extends the ostensible goal of improved and racial interdependency, his left hand increasingly forces African blacks into a cultural and economic grave...