the pass laws.88
But those reforms were mere palliatives. In 1946, the government was
still paying more than twenty times as much per capita for white education
as for black education. In'I 94 2, moreover, Smuts removed from the cabinet
Deneys Reitz, the minister who had been responsible for easing the applica-
tion of the pass laws, and from the end of 1943 Reitz's successor was
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