The Apartheid period started in 1948 with the election of the Nationlist Party and ended in 1994 with the election of the African National Congress (ANC) with Nelson Mandela as President.
Starting in 1948 the Nationalist Party started passing blatantly racist legislation and forced its implementation using every means available, police, army, church, and legislature.
The minority white society maintained a christian democracy for 46 years through "swart gevaar" or "fear of blacks" and every rationalization of white superiority provided by anthropologists, philosphers, Dutch Reformed Ministers, and the racist examples set by Europe and America.
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