Natives outnumbered Europeans nearly three to one in South Africa in 1939

Evidence

29 In 1939, the total population of the Union of South Africa amounted to 9,500,000 of whom 7,000,000 were natives and 2,500,000 Europeans. Of the latter, more than 1,250,000 were Boers, about one-third were British, and 100,000 were Jews. See Norman Bentwich, op. cit. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2330