Apartheid
Malan described Apartheid as “a chance for all the different races to have an opportunity of making them somewhat realize the importance of what is theirs. ” The Europeans tried to maintain their power and control over Black South Africans by institutionalizing a system of called apartheid. The Europeans said and did a lot of things to keep their policy of Apartheid in place. According to L. E. Neame, the Reverend Charles Bourquin, one of the best known missionaries in Southern Africa, read a paper in Pretoria in 1902 in which he said he favored keeping the races apart. He talked about the increasing tension between Whites and Blacks as a reason for the Natives to live as much as possible their own life, manage their own affairs, and have their own institutions. Bourquin’s statements were an attempt at convincing the Natives to accept segregation. Neame says that “when General James Hertzog became Minister of Native Affairs, he instituted a policy of segregation” . Hertzog said that segregation meant that the Natives would have their own defined areas in which the mass of them would make their homes.