The Covenant (2015)
“The word meant apartness, and did not appear in older dictionaries of the language; it was invented, and reflected their belief that God willed the races be kept separate, each progressing properly at its own speed within its own confines.
The word should have been pronounced apart-hate, appropriately ominous, but by foreigners it was usually apart-hite, which is merely ugly. Either pronunciation was unfortunate, for it connoted offensive intentions which its authors did not contemplate.
As the... years progressed, so did the names used to describe apartheid: guardianship, separate development, separate freedoms, separate amenities, indigenous development, multinational development, self-determination, plural democracy. No matter how diligently they tried, the architects of these laws were unable to erase the first, correct name they had given their grand design.
No one could study the instrumental role played by Van Doorn in drafting these laws without being impressed by the planner’s oft-repeated assertion: “I acted from the best and most honest motives, and without personal rancor, in accordance with His will.”MoreLess
The word should have been pronounced apart-hate, appropriately ominous, but by foreigners it was usually apart-hite, which is merely ugly. Either pronunciation was unfortunate, for it connoted offensive intentions which its authors did not contemplate.
As the... years progressed, so did the names used to describe apartheid: guardianship, separate development, separate freedoms, separate amenities, indigenous development, multinational development, self-determination, plural democracy. No matter how diligently they tried, the architects of these laws were unable to erase the first, correct name they had given their grand design.
No one could study the instrumental role played by Van Doorn in drafting these laws without being impressed by the planner’s oft-repeated assertion: “I acted from the best and most honest motives, and without personal rancor, in accordance with His will.”MoreLess
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