A five-part series written and presented by David Dimbleby
3: The Grand Design In 1948 the Afrikaner
Nationalists came to power and began to implement their Grand Design for South
Africa. The races were to live apart; each tribal group was to have its own homeland which in due course would become an independent state. The chief architect of apartheid, prime minister
Hendrik Verwoerd , called it 'a policy of good neighbourliness'. To the outside world it seemed at best impractical, at worst, evil. Thirty years on David Dimbleby examines the theory and practice of apartheid. He meets some who live under it and others who have to make it work. Above all, he explores what Afrikaners now think of the system they have created. Director FRANCIS GERARD Producer DAVID HARRISON