![]() ![]() Those three aims of the National Party remained consistent from 1948 to 1990, when they gave up. To ensure National Party supremacy over the white Afrikaners. To ensure white Afrikaner supremacy over other whitesģ. To ensure white supremacy ( baaskap) over nonwhites (blacks, coloureds, Asians)Ģ. What were the aims of the apartheid policy and the apartheid laws?ġ. There is a lot more that could be said, but as a layman's introduction it really is pretty good. It's short, and tells the bare bones of the story. I knew from my historical studies that these were lies, and so I read this book in order to refresh my memory, and I found that the book was remarkably good. That the Dutch landed at the Cape in 1652 before there were any black people living in what later became South Africa. That it was "the British", and not Dr Malan's National Party, that had introduced apartheid.Ģ. ![]() The main reason was that I wanted to refresh my memory on the topic, because of two old lies that have resurfaced and seem to be increasingly circulated on social media nowadays. ![]() ![]() So why read a popular, non-scholarly book about it? I lived through apartheid, from beginning to end. Why should I read a book by a foreign journalist on the history of apartheid? ![]()
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