Baasskap
Baasskap (English-language term "white supremacy" and functioned either as a description or an endorsement of white minority rule in South Africa.[3]
Proponents
Proponents of baasskap constituted the largest faction of apartheid ideologues in the National Party and state institutions. They applied racial segregation in a systematic way to "preserve racial purity" and to ensure that economic and political spheres were dominated by Afrikaners. However, proponents of baasskap were not necessarily opposed to black South African participation in the economy if black labour was controlled in a way that preserved economic domination by Afrikaners.[4]
Proponents of baasskap included both
C.R. Swart, Minister of Justice.[4] Hendrik Verwoerd had sympathy for the "purist" faction of apartheid ideologues, who opposed economic integration of black South Africans, in contrast to supporters of baasskap who wanted white domination but an integrated economy.[4] Nonetheless, Verwoerd provided the theretofore crude concept of baasskap with a veneer of intellectual respectability.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Verwoerd and his policies appalled me". News 24. Archived from the original on 16 November 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
- ISBN 9780190274832.
- ^ Mathabane, Mark (10 November 2002). "The Threat That Apartheid Left Behind". Washington Post – via www.washingtonpost.com.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-230-37373-0.
External links
The dictionary definition of baasskap at Wiktionary
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