Leveled Readings / The National Party's Colour Policy (1948)
The National Party's Colour Policy (1948)
National Party statement on colour policy (March 29, 1948)
These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.
Original wording
“Either we must follow the course of equality, which must eventually mean national suicide for the White race, or we must take the course of separation (apartheid)…”
Adapted · about grade 4
The party said there were two choices: equality, which it feared would end white South Africa, or keeping races apart.
Adapted · about grade 7
The party said South Africa must choose between equality, which it claimed would mean 'national suicide' for whites, or separation, called apartheid.
Adapted · about grade 10
The party argued that the country must choose either equality, which it claimed would eventually mean national suicide for the white race, or separation (apartheid).
Used in: How did people argue over apartheid in South Africa?