In July 1989 the chairman of the Council for Population Development, Professor J P de Lange, claimed that population growth was South Africa’s ‘ticking time bomb’.
He said that the country had one of the highest population growth rates in the world, and that numbers were doubling every 30 years. Professor De Lange pointed out that in rural areas and in the homelands, African women still had an average of more than six children.
At its current growth rate South Africa would within two decades find itself in a dilemma where its resources and socio-economic capabilities would be insufficient for its population, he said. ‘This will give rise to total social disintegration, unemployment, poverty and misery which will become unmanageable, even in the best of constitutional dispensations. (The Natal Mercury: 13 July 1989, 22 July 1989)
Professor De Lange believed that such high population growth could be halted only if the PDP managed to reduce the birth rate to 2,1 children per woman by the year 2010
[SA Inst. of Race Relations Report, 1989-90 (PDF)]
That was before the ANC decided to give their voters and taxpayers the big middle finger, by allowing an additional 6 - 11 million legal and illegal immigrants to aggravate South Africa's social disintegration, unemployment, poverty and misery time-bomb...
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