The next stage for Dr Malan, was to keep the white race supreme. He tried to accomplish this by starting the Buntu Education Act in 1953. This would allow the white children to have the best education. The white children would have separate schools to black children and different curriculum’s. This gave the blacks an inferior education. Dr Malan made it hard for black children to have a bright future and earning a good living when they graduate from school. He made black children only learn about labouring skills such as cooking and cleaning, gardening and mending. This was all so that in the future the black children of 1953, would work and serve white children in a decade or so. The scheme was so black children, would never be able to get skilled jobs. This was so blacks could never become doctors or lawyers, so they would never have any power what so ever. Dr Malan was planning for the future, and wasn’t going to stop there.
By moving the black race out of towns and cities, this meant more space for whites to live in and many more jobs were available for poor whites that couldn’t get a job before when the blacks lived in the towns. This helped Dr Malan’s aim of keeping the white race supreme.
The black people would be moved into ‘10 tribal homelands’ known as Bantustans set up in 1959. This was so that the black people could govern them selves. This is what they were told, however it was also an easy way to get rid of the blacks out of town and not give a bad name to Dr Malan. The Bantustans were based in extremely poor areas, where as the whites had a very good living standard in the towns and cities. This also helped make the white race supreme, just as Dr Malan wanted. Although a few blacks simply couldn’t move due to their work, these race cases would certainly be because of they had powerful white bosses, whom wanted the black men and women to be servants on very low pay. These people were made to suffer as ‘petty apartheid’ came into power, this meant whites would have completely separate lifestyles to blacks. Entertainment and leisure facilities such as cinemas, swimming pools, restaurants, beaches, would all become white only area’s. This made the blacks feel segregated and many wanted to leave the towns and cities, and be reunited with fellow black people. Apartheid was all going to plan for Dr Malan, but he still hadn’t finished yet.
The next chapter in the apartheid series, was pass books brought in for blacks to carry on them 24 hours a day, for the rest of their lives. This pass book just so happened to be 96 pages long. It was a way to keep South Africans under surveillance. However whites only needed to carry a card. This all added to white supremacy. The pass books could be asked for by any policemen walking the streets, whether the black man or women was purely taking the dog for a walk or jogging round the block. If a black person was caught without their pass book on them they would be arrested straight away with no questions needed. This was an easy way to arrest a black person and get them off the streets, and many blacks were searched dozens of times everyday. However if a white person failed to show their card, they would be given 7 days to report their card to a policemen. This all showed supremacy and was piling on pressure for the blacks to leave towns and cities.
Earlier in 1950 the suppression of communism act came into power, which made it possible to arrest anyone opposing the police or any laws. This meant hardly any black person would even bother to oppose apartheid as they were too scared of the consequences. Later in 1962, a black person could be arrested for 12 days without charge. And many would be given such a tortures time in the cells by white police officers, they wouldn’t set foot on the streets again. However the new Prime Minister Uerwoerd wasn’t happy still and further wanted to punish blacks for causing trouble. In 1965 he allowed blacks to be kept in jail without charge for 180 days. Everyday of which would be made to get more painful for the ‘criminal’ but really they were no more than victims.
Dr Malan came in to change South Africa, and he did. He accomplished everything he wanted to do. Yet he can’t be around to dictate the country forever. But what he has done to the country will never be forgotten.
Apartheid was brought in by one man whom wanted to change the past present and future of South Africa. He succeed with the past, destroying all the countries mixed culture heritage. He succeeded with the present changing millions of lives, many of which died in the process. And he has succeeded with the future, South African continued to believe in the segregation of blacks and whites. That was until another man came into power. A man that had spent 27 years under the tightest security known to man, on an island in the middle of the pacific with nowhere to hide. But most importantly he was black.