The White man’s task by Jan Smuts, 22 May 1917
… 1917. In it he gives some of the guiding principles of our native policy. GENERAL SMUTS said: I am deeply grateful to … not in honour of me, but in honour of that far-away, dear land, which most of us have served and with which most of us … have existed mostly for the purpose of exploiting the native populations, and in that way, and probably also …