Separate Development as a Failed Project of Social Engineering: The Flawed Logic of Hendrik Verwoerd

An earlier version of this paper was delivered as a keynote address at the outset of a conference on 'The Golden Age of Apartheid'. That talk sought to set a tone for the conference by focusing on contradictions in the racial and cultural logic of Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, whose political inter...

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Published inSouth African Historical Journal Vol. 69; no. 2; pp. 153 - 161
Main Author Moodie, T. Dunbar
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 03.04.2017
Subjects
apartheid
culture
policy implementation
race
separate development
urbanisation
Verwoerd
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Summary:An earlier version of this paper was delivered as a keynote address at the outset of a conference on 'The Golden Age of Apartheid'. That talk sought to set a tone for the conference by focusing on contradictions in the racial and cultural logic of Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, whose political interventions dominated events and reconfigured society during the period of apartheid's golden age. While 'separate development' presented an apparently moral (if anthropologically questionable) 'separate cultures' argument for 'national development', it was always fundamentally undercut by racist assumptions of apartheid. This seems to have been true of Verwoerd's personal attitudes as well as his political initiatives at the time.
ISSN:0258-2473
1726-1686
DOI:10.1080/02582473.2017.1293720