described when we examine a speech made in the senate of parliament in nineteen fifty three by the then minister of native affairs who later became the prime minister of the republic hendrick verwoerd when he said the native will be taught from childhood to realise that equality with europeans is not for him there is no place for the bantu child above the level of certain forms of labour until now he has been subjected to a school system which drew him away from his community and misled him by showing him green pastures of european society in which he was not allowed to graze the point is not to focus on the warped character of verwoerd but to contend that the current south african society of rising unemployment deepening poverty and widening inequality is the realisation of an intention to benefit a certain race while prejudicing others