‘Jannie Promises,’ White Veterans and the Struggle for Social Justice

Aspiration and Self-Realization: The Ameliorative Projects of Steve Biko

“…In the debate concerning the Registration act, one parliamentarian claimed, “It is obvious to all we know the native and if we see a white man, we know that he is a white man. We…have never experienced any difficulties in distinguishing between Europeans and non-Europeans” (Union of South Africa, 1950).…”

“…12Roos (2005) notes that South African Boer communities involved so much mixing between white men and indigenous women that many of the Boer descendants were those of mixed lineage that could pass for white.…”