ABSTRACT
Apartheid also operated at the micro level where separation affected the details of the daily life of the population. The policy was intended to eliminate virtually all personal contact between members of different population groups, except within the master-servant or employer-employee relationship, both of which were essentially viewed in White-Black terms. Attention was focused upon the physical isolation of the White group from the others. For most personal apartheid matters there were only two salient groups: Whites and ‘Non-Whites’. Because of the racial dualism which was evident in personal apartheid, it is proposed periodically to refer to all who were not regarded as White as ‘Non-Whites’, however demeaning the term was considered to be. It illustrates the feeling of the intent of the multitude of laws and regulations issued to prevent those who were not classified as White from occupying and using declared White space. The term was widely used in everything from government notices to park benches.
