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Throughout his book, Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane describes in intricate detail how the white South Africans controlled South Africa in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The racial tensions in South Africa during Apartheid were strained to the breaking point, with the whites having complete control over the black population. Although the blacks far out numbered the whites, the whites still maintained control. The white people of South Africa kept control in many different ways. From requiring that all adult citizens carry passbooks, to pitting black against black by using tribal natives as policemen, they kept Apartheid alive. These are just two of the many ways whites kept control of black South Africa. Apartheid was the system of complete segregation between whites and blacks. It is the most extreme form of segregation. Not only did the blacks have to use different bathrooms and go to different schools than whites, as they did in the United States, they were also forced to live in run down ghettos and they were, for the most part, only allowed to have menial jobs which paid very little. Mathabane illustrates this point by describing the jobs of his parents and other blacks that he knows. His grandmother, for instance, is a gardener for