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Between the late 19th and early 20th century, White South Africans were amongst the poorest group of people in the world. White poverty in South Africa so greatly alarmed the White elite across the globe, who couldn't reconcile their ideas of White racial superiority with White destitution in South Africa. The Carnegie Institute of America was commissioned to study the issue of White poverty. According to a memorandum sent to Frederick Keppel, the President of the Carnegie Institute, "there was little doubt that if the Bantu were given full economic opportunity, the more competent would outstrip the less competent Whites". Keppel, a bona-fide White supremacist & segregationist himself, suggested that unless something was done to help poor Whites, "racial deterioration & miscegenation would be the outcome" & a similar fate awaited poor Whites in the American South. One American official visitor to Grahamstown in South Africa wrote that "miscellaneous herds of Whites & Blacks lived together in the most promiscuous manner imaginable." The report expressed fear for the loss of "White racial pride" and the dangers of Whites not being able to resist the process of "Bantu-isation" To solve the problem, the Carnegie Institute recommended the creation of "employment sanctuaries" for Whites in which Blacks couldn't compete, the replacement of all Black skilled workers with White workers & of course racial segregation. This report provides the blueprint for the Apartheid system in South Africa