Apartheid’s land was thoroughly culturally mixed from colonization’s start

Evidence

Far from a terra nullius, the land that came to be the laboratory of apartheid was from almost the outset of euro-modernizing and largely as a result of practices endemic to colonization a terra mixta. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1334

Categorization

• SEED: The terra mixta vs terra nullius framing is a ready-made essay angle on how apartheid’s extreme segregationism grew out of, rather than despite, extreme mixing.
• XREF: connects to: The architects of apartheid descended from the very racial mixing they later repressed. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1318