Key Players in Apartheid
Daniel François Malan
"It was Malan, the dour and bloodless Daniel Francois Malan, who rose in Parliament to promulgate the laws that made it a crime for blacks to marry whites. The same Malan stripped…colored descendants of their right to vote, evicted them from white suburbs, and chased them out of white schools."-Rian Malan (descendent of Daniel François Malan)
[1948 opening narration; South African police raid & bulldoze a Black shantytown] "Mr. Speaker, today South Africa belongs to us. Where we shall be introducing legislation to implement our policy which we call Apartheid-the separation between the races. Races will live and travel separately. Education will be separate for all groups at all levels. Work fitting for the White man will be reserved for him and him alone. Apartheid rests on three unarguable foundations - Afrikaner Experience, Scientific Proof that the White man is a superior being, and Biblical Witness. Apartheid represents divine will."-Prime Minister Daniel François Malan
Hendrik Verwoerd
Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until 1966
Came up with Apartheid plan that took away the black South African rights and implemented it
"My belief is that the development of South Africa on the basis of this Bill will create so much friendship, so much gratitude, so many mutual interests in the process of the propulsive development that there will no longer be hostile Bantu states, but that there will arise what I call a Commonwealth, founded on common interests and linked together by common interests." -Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd |
Banned the ANC and PAC
"Is not our role to stand for the one thing which means our own salvation here but with which it will also be possible to save the world, and with which Europe will be able to save itself, namely the preservation of the white man and his state?"-Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd |
B. J. Vorster
Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978
Was Prime Minister when: the Terrorism Act, the Soweto Riots, the complete abolishment of non-white political representation and the Steve Biko death occurred |
Minister of Justice during the Rivonia Trial-Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage
Vorster later became the South African Head of State (1978 to 1979)
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