Apartheid officially became law on this day in 1948. The first mention of apartheid in parliament was in 1944 by DF Malan. Stephanie VIctor wrote a paper about war & rumour. In it she mentions the many Nazi supporters there were in rural villages like Hanover (just outside Bisho)

I reviewed Bongo Maffin's Radio Africa last year and some of the history of the radio's effectiveness in spreading Nazi sympathetic propaganda is explosive! Note that a lot of apartheid policies were inspired by what was happening in Germany.

Sorry: From Bongo With Love. I confused it with Freshlyground's Radio Africa, which I mention in the review.

Prof Zine Magubane also presented a paper eRhodes about how politicians also visited the US to observe how they could import segregation to South Africa. This thing was carefully studied. They made sure to plan for it so they could execute this crime against humanity.

Here's the title of the paper on the power of the radio that I was reffering to. The authors look at the history between WW2 and the when the ANC established Radio Freedom. "From Revolutionary to Regime Radio: Three Decades of Nationalist Broadcasting in Southern Africa.'

There's a lot of sources one can go through online. SAHO is one useful source as well. There's also much more to uncover. Abantu survived an evil that is usually euphemised to this day (note the last illegitimate president's statements denying it was a crime against humanity).

It's important to connect this history to the formation of the Union. When the NP won elections they saw it as their victory in the struggle to reclaim their land ever since they lost in the Anglo-Boer war and the subsequent negotiations that birth the Union in 1910.