Day: October 31, 2018💾

"Dr. Verwoerd was an authoritarian, socially conservative leader and an Afrikaner nationalist. His goal in founding the Republic of South Africa, thereby leaving the British Commonwealth, was to preserve minority rule by white Afrikaners over the various non-white ethnic groups, including Bantu, Khoisan, Coloured and Indian people, who were the majority of South Africa's population. To that end, he greatly expanded apartheid (apart-ness or separate development), the system of forced classification and segregation by race that existed in South Africa from 1948 to 1994."