Surprising point on the early career of Verwoerd

Johannesburg - "it is not biological between groups of racing, as argued earlier, differences Verwoerd said his students"
IN the 1930s, a young Professor Afrikaans told his students at the University of Stellenbosch as follows: "there is no biological between groups of great race differences as argued earlier", which means that "this (biological differences) does was not really a factor in the development of a social civilization higher by the white race race." Prof Hendrik Verwoerd's Fensch also rejected claims that the anatomical differences between black and white proved that black people
 are related to the monkeys. He said: "whites also have certain features which the Negroids did not, but who are resembling large singes.Ils have so much hair."The legs are shorter in comparison to their upper body.
Some people might be surprised to learn that these words belong to Verwoerd, described by the writer Christopher Hope as "the true Apostle of apartheid." Hope, whose family has lived in the same neighbourhood as Verwoerd Johannesburg in the 1940s, called Verwoerd a deadly fanatic whose "enthusiasm" for the Afrikaner blood purity made all more intense by the fact that, Verwoerd, does he not Afrikaans at all.
Verwoerd was born in Netherlands in 1901, but came in 1903 to SA, where his father hoped to become a missionary.
Hope writes to the brothers under the Skin: travel in tyranny, Verwoerd was the first tyrant he never met. Hope, says: "Verwoerd family had emigrated to Holland SA, a fact they loved never dwell .they came to stand during the sacred racial purity, but Ms. Verwoerd (wife of HF) and her children climbed to tram old that up past the Parkview zoo Lake, a suburb of Johannesburg where I lived, my aunt to widen my ribs and we would stare, even if we knew who was bad ways, because for the rumor ran, the wife of Dr. Verwoerd, Betsy, dark and austere, was not entirely to cent percent classifiably"white"certified."
The hope was four when the national party won the 1948 election Verwoerd Parkview and his job as editor of Transvaler Die to join the cabinet of DF Malan.Means the Verwoerd Hope knew in the late 1940s was different from the Verwoerd telling his students in the 1930s, he thought there is biological differences and intellectual between blacks and blancs.Mais, as Roberta Balstad Miller wrote in 1993, there was no evidence to support the belief that Verwoerd was a "rigid ideologue and an unwavering nationalist". Miller explains that, on the contrary, "Verwoerd views on race (before 1937, when he became editor-in-Chief of Transvaler Die) were more liberal than those of many sociologists of the time."
Verwoerd, only 23 when he was awarded a doctorate in psychology Stellenbosch in 1924, was formed not sociologist.Yet he was appointed head of Department of Sociology Stellenbosch and social when it was established in 1932 work.It was first Department of Sociology SA and its formation grew out of recommendations of the poor white, a study funded by the U.S. - based Carnegie Corporation to address the problem of poor white SA.The idea was to train social workers and experts in social science that apply science in their efforts to understand and to eradicate poverty white in SA.
According to Miller, whose essay, science and society in the early career of HF Verwoerd, was published in the journal of Southern African Studies, Verwoerd sociologist "was descriptive, empirical and appliquée.Il tended to describe social conditions rather to search for patterns or regularities in social behavior, and was less interested in theories of social change that social problems.""He laced his lectures with social statistics, tell her classes that they must treat the facts first - theory would later".Miller, explains: "learned sociology as Verwoerd objective was not to develop a general understanding of social phenomena, but rather to address specific social problems in SA."Verwoerd could not, at least in respect of sociology, a large image.Mais guy said Miller, he was a morality when she proposed explanations of the pauvreté.Il believed that "individual uprising" and the right personal choices could reduce described pauvreté.Miller Verwoerd approach before leaving academia ? and a "soft social-political ameliorism".but it.
When he joined Die Transvaler and in 1948, the cabinet, Verwoerd Malan completely changed the cours.Miller, explains Verwoerd can have always supported Hope calls its bizarre theories kept quiet on the subject for the sake of his social status in Cape Town, "liberal"; there may be a pragmatist who abandoned pragmatism Afrikaner nationalism, or might be opportunistic ambitious came to suggest that national policy only would achieve its written ambitions.Miller: "if it should not be construed as an ideologue, but rather as a pragmatist and opportunistic whose ambitions guided by his actions and, finally, in the form of beliefs."

Naturally out of Africa. Saturday, October 16, 2010