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He explained: “Underlying much of the commentary is a thinly veiled offensive against South Africa’s right to determine her own foreign and domestic policy. In this context, a policy affirmation to the African diaspora which has suffered the crimes of slavery and racism sets a bad example to those who want to keep Africans as hewers of wood and drawers of water!”

Black schools were required to adopt a curriculum that trained students to be no more than servants, “hewers of wood and drawers of water,” as one National Party official had it.

True that we were stupid and ugly and lazy and dirty and, unlucky and worst of all, that God Himself hated us and ordained us to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, forever and ever, world without end.

True that we were stupid and ugly and lazy and dirty and, unlucky and worst of all, that God Himself hated us and ordained us to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, forever and ever, world without end.

The Dutch Reformed Church provided a religious justification for apartheid; its ministers once preached that blacks were inferior beings, the "hewers of wood and drawers of water" of the Book of Joshua in the Old Testament.