Word: baasskap
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This was an attitude that any white leader of South Africa would have to come to terms with. To Verwoerd, the mixture of baasskap and benevolence came naturally. And evil as it was, it seemed to be a formula that could at least prevent an explosion of racial violence. The question was whether his successor could or would be able to govern in the same fashion...
...Dutch-descended Afrikaner is concerned, he is again in the laager, barricaded against a hostile world. Behind him are 300 years of white baasskap (bossdom) in a land he knows is his. His Dutch Reformed Church preaches apartheid, tells him that black men are fit only to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water," and assures him that God is on his side. He lives in isolation from the rest of the world, which he does not understand and he is sure does not understand...
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