Apartheid’s prime ministers explicitly justified the racial order as divine will.

Evidence

H. F. Verwoerd, who played such a key role in articulating apartheid as governmentality and would follow D. F. Malan as prime minister, added at the same moment, “It was in accordance with God’s will that different races and volke (nations) exist.” (I owe both quotes to Giliomee’s book, an enormous source of information if an extended and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to render repressive Afrikaner history more palatable.) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1514

Categorization

• QUESTION: Goldberg flags Giliomee’s apologetic framing — worth verifying these quotes against primary sources independent of Giliomee.