Implicit in this thesis is the idea that these higher human beings have a similar right and duty to maintain the purity of the human species up to the point and including the commission of the crime of genocide. One of the earliers of these racist theoreticians in our country, in the previous century, was none other than General Jan Smuts, who opposed Nazism only because it threated British imperial power. Speaking amidst the splendour of the London Savoy Hotel in 1917, Smuts had this to say:
“It has now become an accepted axiom in our dealings with the Natives that it is dishonourable to mix White and Black blood … We have felt more and more that if we are to solve our Native question, it is useless to try to govern Black and White in the same institutions of government and legislation. They are different not only in colour but in minds and in political capacity …”
More than 40 years later, when these insulting racist ideas had been translated into the apartheid system, here is what two other theoreticians of this system wrote:
“The three foundation stones of apartheid are Western culture, Christian morality and a specific racial identity. In the case of the Afrikaner, there is a powerful connecting link between these three elements. His own particular bio-genetic character is, for example, associated with a particular socio-cultural way of life and to give up either, through amalgamation with a more primitive culture or race must necessarily result in the
