[3] Johan Heyns said in "Denkers deur die eeue" that Stoker is one of the greatest philosophers that Africa has ever produced.
The First World War caused some difficulty for the Deutsche Schule and Stoker's parents were forced to move him to the Potchefstroom Gimnasium, where he matriculated in 1916.
Totius, the professor at the Theological School of the Reformed Church was also known as a poet and one of the leaders of the "Tweede Taalbeweging" (Second Language Movement).
[9] In September 1925 Stoker was married to Miriam Francoise du Plessis by Totius in the Reformed Church, Pretoria.
Van der Walt who criticizes Stoker for not succeeding in freeing himself from the scholastic influence of Herman Bavink.
Stoker starts the article by talking about the reality of South Africa's demographics, that the white population is a minority.
William writes about it:[17]Stoker takes an honest, albeit idealistic, view of the racial situation in South Africa.
In his defense of the good intentions of apartheid, he states quite idealistically that it seeks to lead the blacks to their highest potential of development and at the same time to protect them from "Europeanisation" and "Westernisation" where these influences, in his opinion, will uproot them and will destroy their racial integrity.
Stoker mentions a number of reasons why the racial situation in South Africa has reached a critical stage, for example the inequality in political and civilizational level that has existed between the white majority group and the black minority group since their meeting at the southern tip of Africa.
The most likely alternative, as it could be applied according to liberalism in South Africa, would, according to the fear of the majority of whites, lead to integration and assimilation in economic, cultural, political, social and finally biological areas.
With the choice of apartheid, the whites wanted to secure their own existence and maintain control over their own future determination and they thought that they could best arrange matters for peaceful coexistence for the other racial groups in the country.There are several people today who blame Stoker for this, such as the following quote from the church archive of the Dutch Reformed Church:[18] Political and spiritual leaders as well as theologians from the ranks of the church often have the justification that gives the ideology and practice of apartheid a semblance of given acceptability.The following awards also bear witness to H.G.