What were Daniel François Malan's views on apartheid?

Answer 1

The very term 'Apartheid' was first coined as a political term in the Afrikaner Nationalist Newspaper 'Die Burger' in 1943 to describe a policy of racial seperation and seperate development. In fact the very Newspaper 'Die Burger' was founded by Dr Malan in 1915 to serve as the mouthpiece for the newly formed National Party in the Cape region. Now Dr Malan who was the longtime leader of the National Party when they won the 1948 election running on the platform of "Apartheid".

Now when Dr Malan first got into office as Prime Ministerhe didnt have any real solid ideas on how to implement Apartheid into legislation. Dr Malans only real ideas was for stricter job reservations protecting the rights of the White working class from the mass of cheap Black labour. Also the rights of White workers to form trade unions independent of company control. But besides these points he didnt have any ideas. But that all changed in 1950 when he appointed the editor of "Die Transvaler" newspaper, Dr VerwoerdasMinister ofBantu Affairs. It was Dr Verwoerd who with his own creativity and ambitionimplemented theApartheid laws into practice. You must remember,Dr Malan was a old man his late 70s while he was Prime Minister, he waslargerly a figurehead of state. Allowing his trusted Ministers to run their own affairs and gave them a free hand to establish Apartheid.

Men like Dr Verwoerd, Johannes Strijdom,Theophilus Donges, Charles Robberts Swart, Johannes de Klerk, Nicolaas Diederichs, Balthazar Vorster, Jacobus Fouche and Paul Sauer were the so called "Architects of Apartheid" who created the successful system of Seperate Development in South Africa in the 1950s and 60s.