Idealist or Practical Apartheid

• Vague flagship policy to ensure flexibility (think Sauer Report), showed them committed to Apartheid without fixing to an exact vision; this ensured diverse interpretations of it among politicians and voters (no perspectives alienated)
• The vagueness and commitment to flexibility did, however, create the problem of idealist versus practical apartheid
• Idealist Apartheid: Complete segregation between blacks (’Tribal homelands’) and whites, with blacks farming and no involvement in industry and whites having all industrial jobs - thought to be accepted by both blacks and whites
• Practical Apartheid: Segregation to the extent possible, continue employing blacks in industry for cheap labour to sell goods at competitive prices; (exploit) but have petty apartheid (separate amenities)
• Was apartheid planned from the start: Yes - Sauer report (ultimatum segregation vs national suicide), flagship policy, popular mandate (shared goal), bantu education act (idealist and successful), successive act, unrelenting and impactful (not haphazard)
• Was apartheid planned from the start: No - very vague (how is the belief agreed if everyone sees it differently), gov. with no experience desperately chasing support (can’t afford master plan), laws each introduced as opportunities arose and don’t fit together (contradictory), mix of idealist and practical, influx control system never worked (black’s in cities went up, less segregation), 1958-66 Verwoerd brought a new wave of apartheid (vastly different, no over-arching plan)