The Dark Eye
With the war over and his business with the army concluded, van der Post returned to South Africa in late 1947 to work at the "Natal Daily News", but with the election victory of the National Party and the onset of apartheid he came back to London. He later published a critique of apartheid ("The Dark Eye in Africa", 1955), basing many of his insights on his developing interest in psychology. In May 1949 he was commissioned by the Colonial Development Corporation (CDC) to "assess the livestock capacities of the uninhabited Nyika and Mulanje plateaux of Nyasaland" (now part of Malawi).