BUREAUCRACY AND RACE. Native Adminstration in South Africa

403 pages, black cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket.

‘The common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion is overturned in Ivan Evan’s searching study. Without understating the role of violent intervention, Evans shows that apartheid was supported by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy. The Department of Native Affairs, which had dwindled during the last years of the segregation regime into a neglected outpost staffed by liberals, unexpectedly revived and became the arrogant, authoritarian fortress of apartheid.’ Editor’s note.