Special Report Transcript Episode 74, Section 3, Time 25:24

The then Minister of Native Affairs, Dr Verwoerd, wanted no married housing at all, indeed he instructed Anglo to destroy the housing already constructed. The compromise reached at that time was to retain houses already built, but build no more. And this is the origin of the 3 percent quota that was only scrapped with the scrapping of influx control in 1986 and which was applied to the whole mining industry. The particular failure here is that Anglo itself failed to meet this 3 percent quota and in fact the married housing built never exceeded 1 percent. Efforts were made from the mid 1970s onwards to desegregate work places. These efforts however should have commenced much earlier, proceeded much more quickly and been achieved much more consistently. Without a shadow of doubt all white South Africans fared very much better than their black compatriots throughout the apartheid decades. So all white South Africans were beneficiaries of apartheid.

Notes: Bobby Godsell (Anglo American)