lectuals who were developing a blueprint for complete economic as well as
political segregation of South African society.I"? Professor of Sociology at
the University of Pretoria G. S. Cronje systematized those ideas in 'n Tuiste
vir die Nageslag (A Home for Posterity), in which he argued that the only
way to ensure the long-term survival of the Afrikaner people was to sepa-
rate the races into completely distinct territories in South Africa and make
the Whites do without black labor.l''! Cronje's book was the subject of
earnest debate in Afrikaner cultural circles, including the South African
Bureau of Racial Affairs, which Afrikaners founded in opposition to the
liberal South African Institute of Race Relations. The Afrikaans press and
the Afrikaner
churches
also publicized
the ideal of absolute
racial
separation.
In 1946, the National party appointed
a committee, chaired by Paul
Sauer, a senior party politician, to prepare a policy statement on the racial
problem. The Sauer report treated Indians as an alien, unassimilable ele-
ment in South Africa. It recommended
the rigorous segregation of the
Coloured People, the consolidation of the African reserves, the removal of
missionary control of African education, and the abolition of the Natives