STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2485, sig. 109-12/132

Page 60

English Translation

33-2 South Africa - Land of the White Man All these considerations of separating black and white cleanly are nutless, as long as mixed marriages between the coloured mixed breed, the so-called Cape people are not prohibited.The colored population, in contrast to the black population of bastards of various breeds, gathers with more or less European blood. The beginning was made with blood mixtures between the first settlers and hottent women, who then merged with Malays, Indians and more recently Europeans over the decades and centuries, so that today, in the last living generation of the Cape people, all colour tints and racial characteristics can be anticipated. In 1935 there were 400 legal marriages between whites and coloreds, even blacks! The present political balance of power Since parliamentary majorities often have the characteristic of temporary appearances, this point is only referred to fleetingly within this more fundamental upswing. On 1 January 1940, General Hertog and Dr. Malan came to an agreement and the newly founded Reunified National or People's Party became the strongest power group in the country, which did not participate in the current course of government. The statement issued jointly by both party leaders stated, among other things: 'The Pa of the British Africans, This taut Zusa Hertog stepped out of his appendix states that this should happen anew to the fact that the al is being realized.