ABSTRACT
The word ‘apartheid’, used early in 1943, gained currency only slowly, perhaps among other reasons because political attention was focused more on the war than on colour policy. This chapter presents a series of extracts from a very long speech by Dr. Verwoerd, at that time Senator, made on the 3 September 1948. This extract constitutes Dr. Verwoerd's first public exposition of the meaning of ‘Apartheid’. The apartheid policy has been described as what one can do in the direction of what everyone regard as ideal. Nobody will deny that for the Native as well as for the European complete separation would have been the ideal if it had developed that way historically. The Natives must be induced to build up his own social, health and welfare services in his own reserves. Social and welfare services take place within the perspective and policy of this side of the House and best by providing for the Native through the Native himself.
