Malan then explains the second choice of apartheid would be good for both races, whether he really thinks this or not is a mystery. He then explains the party’s primary objective is to preserve and safeguard the rule of the white race.
Dr Malan then moves on to say (very harshly) that anyone apposing the new apartheid policy would not be tolerated. You get the idea He’s fundamentally saying they will be dealt with very swiftly and effectively.
To me Malan wanted to completely eradicate the presence of black people on lands of any use. To him this obviously meant all black people; not only meaning the older people, but he also ordered black students away from white towns forcing them away onto their own 7% of the country.
This man was ruthless but incredibly smart. I think this because as I read the source I realise more and more that this man is trying to make these people visitors, tourists, migrants in their own country. This thought came to me when I reached the part in the source where he actually says they should be regarded as migrants. This means more that it seems; it includes many things like no voting rights (so whites controlled the country completely) and no social rights.
In my eyes this man would love to completely remove the black race although he knows this is impossible it reflects in his thoughts about the Indians. He brings it all down to one sentence saying he intends to send as many Indians back to India as humanly possible.
Him stating in a Hitler style way that the whites will not tolerate subversive propaganda from blacks wraps up the source. A few things noticed even on the first read of this source is the way he personally looks down on coloured people thinking that they are in someway worse than the white people; I think this is reflected in everything in this source.
Back to the point of this piece, I have learnt that the national party in 1948 had an exceedingly harsh view on the apartheid policy actually making it a law in 1948 completely supports my views on this matter.
