Election Tactics

• Before the 1948 election the NP published the "Saucer Report" stating:

  • The migrant labour system should continue
  • Black Africans in urban areas should be treated be treated as "visitors"
  • Black Africans should live in the reserves
• The use of the term Apartheid attracted a great deal of interest. Malan also began to talk about the "swart gevaar" the black peril.
• Malan also constantly referred to the threat of communism, which he linked to racial integration in SA.
• He stated that black Africans must live in defined areas of the country, where they would have little or no contact with whites.
• In theory Apartheid meant "separate development, the idea that blacks, whites and coloureds should live their lives apart and develop their own institutions, societies and economies.
• What made the Apartheid system so objectionable was that "apart" meant completely different standards, which were controlled by whites.