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Thanks mostly to the pass laws, South Africa has one of the highest prison populations in the world: one out of every 236 South Africans is behind bars. Every day more than 1,000 Africans are herded through the Bantu Affairs Courts, where it usually takes less than a minute to be tried, found guilty and sentenced...
...million blacks will overwhelm its 3.4 million whites, and it is enforced only through massive and brutal police powers. But to Verwoerd, it is not simply a tool to keep the black man in his place. He sees it as a creative policy intended to allow the Bantu to develop as a true African instead of becoming an imitation white man. "Separation does not envision oppression," he proclaims...
Keystone of the whole structure is partition of South Africa into white and black states. In Verwoerd's grand scheme, the African tribal reserves will be turned into eight separate "Bantustans," which will eventually be granted full independence as nations. "In the homelands the Bantu is No. 1 and the white...
...explains Bantu Development Minister Michiel Botha. "In the white area the white man is No. 1 and the Bantu...
Doughty Helen. Verwoerd has never been stronger, in fact. Swallowing his old hatred of British South Africans, he has ventured into such English-speaking bastions as Durban to woo support for his policies, and his theme that all whites must unite behind him or be dispossessed by the Bantu usually gets a standing ovation and cries of "Hear, hear!" In Parliament, the once powerful United Party has been reduced to 39 seats. As an opposition party, Verwoerd once described it as "nothingness-both topless and bottomless." He is not far off. Its leader, Sir De Villiers Graaff, offers vague motions...