![]() ![]() ![]() Jeffreys sought to counter the separating drive enshrined in the Population Registration Act, thus attempting to force a recognition of the artificiality of apartheid’s social engineering. ![]() By 1950, the country was enacting Population Registration legislation. Apartheid was institutionalized in 1948, with the first National Party election victory. 2 She used her access to historical documents to undertake and disseminate genealogical studies and historical research that sought to remind a country in the first throes of apartheid legislation of the Creole origins of the South African nation. 1 Jeffreys (1893-1968) was a “white” woman who worked as an archivist in the Cape Town Archives Repository for twenty-nine years. So wrote Marie Kathleen Jeffreys in 1959. Denied the preserver of his music and the creator of his pleasure. Denied the designer of his clothes and of his silver. Denied the builder of his houses and the fashioner of his furniture. He has denied the Coloured originator of his language. The Afrikaner has denied the Coloured mother. ![]()
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