Natural Homelands Theory Doesn't Apply to South Africans of Mixed Ancestry - The theorists of South African apartheid, with all their rationalizing and moralizing, have failed to rationalize and moralize the place of the coloreds in apartheid society. The coloreds of South Africa are the people of mixed ancestry. One out of every 10 South Africans is classified as colored. Their skin color shades from yellow to tan. Their features sometimes seem Negroid, sometimes Asiatic, sometimes European. Their plight weighs heavily on those whites who feel the conscience of their country. "Even Verwoerd could not fit these people into his logic," says one influential leader of the ruling Nationalist Party, referring to the late Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd, who liked to indulge in long, logical expositions of apartheid. The theorists of apartheid claim that South Africa will some day be divided into a number of independent homelands, each for a different race or culture. But where is the natural homeland for the almost 2 million coloreds? Their coloredstan? There isn't any...

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