The 1922 Stallard Commission deplored “miscegenation” in urban areas, where blacks and poor whites lived “cheek by jowl” in squalid shantytowns. The commission spelled out a new urban policy in words that have since been chiseled in the annals of South African history: “The Native should only be allowed to enter urban areas, which are essentially the white man’s creation, when he is willing to enter and to minister to the needs of the white man, and should depart therefore when he ceases so to minister.”12
