ABSTRACT
If there is any country in the world whose political history has been greatly shaped by the race factor, it is South Africa. In this country, the policy of apartheid was used to support the claim that people of different races not only needed to develop separately, but also needed to receive different treatment. The latter, then, depended On one's skin colour. As can be expected, preferential treatment was given to the South African white minority. The darker one's skin colour was, the more disadvantaged one became. Worthy of note for the present text is the painful observation that the Christian Bible, a book which is still highly esteemed in many African-South African Christian circles, was also used to support such an erroneous claim. 1
