Tomlinson Report

• In 1954, the Afrikaner National government order Professor Tomlinson to conduct research into the implementation of the official policy of Apartheid.
• Professor Tomlinson advised the government that separation of the races could work if the government were prepared to finance Apartheid effectively.
• Tomlinson recommended that homelands (reserves) be set up and become Bantu (native) homelands or Bantustans.
• These homelands such as Transkei, KwaZulu and Bophuthatswana would remain separated from the white community and eventually become independent.
• Factories should be constructed on the borders and, over time, all black South Africans would live only in the Bantustans. They would enter a white area only for the purpose of work and with correct documentation in the form of passbooks.