The role of Natal in the development of the policy of racial segregation in South Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth century

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Title:	The role of Natal in the development of the policy of racial segregation in South Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth century
Author:	Konczacka, J.M.
Year:	1986
Periodical:	Africana Bulletin
Issue:	33
Pages:	51-63
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	South Africa Natal
Subjects:	segregation colonists British
Abstract:	For a long time it was believed that the idea of racial seperation in South Africa was exclusively a Boer philosophy, originating in the belief that they were inherently superior to the indigenous population. The present article argues that, apart from this Boer philosophy, the policy of racial segregation was created by both the Boers and British colonists in Natal. It was not so much the theory of segregation as its practice in Natal that laid the foundations for the subsequent economic policy of labour exploitation based on racial discrimination. Notes, ref.