els of poverty, undernutrition,
and disease, especially tuberculosis.
The government also intensified its control of the educational system.
Although it treated Whites as a single entity in politics, in defense of
Afrikaans culture it insisted on separation between Afrikaners and other
Whites in the public schools. Building on the policy' that J. B. M. Hertzog
had initiated in the Orange Free State, the government maintained parallel
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