Huddleston fumed, "Apartheid was not a political mistake, it was a fundamentally evil system."42 The recognition of this legacy is what Desmond M. Tutu took into account as he picked up the baton from Huddleston and carried his part of the race against apartheid.
NOTES
1
Brian Bunting, "Origins of Apartheid", in
Alec La Guma (ed.), Apartheid:
A Collection of Writings on South Africa by South Africans ( New York: International
Publishers, 1971), p. 23.
3
Leo Marquard, The People and Policies of South Africa ( London: Oxford University Press, 1969), p. 221.
5
When the author was in high school in 1957, he heard a story told about Malan and how he became a preacher in NGK. It was said that before he became
a minister he became very sick and went into a coma. After he recovered he
began to preach about the beauty of heaven. At a news conference soon after,
he was asked if he saw Africans in heaven. Malan looked surprised at the question and responded, "No, I did not go to the kitchen, that is where Natives stay."
6
Marquard, The People and Policies of South Africa, p. 231.
10
History notes that the Catholic Church condemned this book because it
was considerd too revolutionary, forcing Rousseau to seek refuge in Britain
where he was protected for expressing his views of society.
11
For details see Dickson A. Mungazi, The Last Defenders of the Laager: Ian D.
Smith and F. W. de Klerk ( Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998).
12
Stardake Samkange, What Rhodes Really Said About Africans ( Harare: Harare
Publishing House, 1982), p. 27.
13
Quoted in Marquard, The People and Policies of South Africa, p. 229.
14
Robert Buis, Religious Beliefs and White Prejudice ( Johannesburg: Raven
Press, 1975), p. 9.
15
Jim Wallis and
Joyce Holleyday (eds.), Crucible of Fire: The Church Confronts
Apartheid ( Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1989), p. 104.
17
Marquard, The People and Policies of South Africa, p. 231.
19
Bunting, "Origins of Apartheid", p. 25.
20
Allister Sparks, The Mind of South Africa ( New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989),
p. 188.
21
Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country ( New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948), p. 102.
23
Sparks, The Mind of South Africa, p. 188.
24
A. B. Xuma served as president of the ANC from 1940 to 1949. A dedicated
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