Apartheid: 'n Verkiesingsvaandel in Suid-Afrika in 1948. DF Malan en die Nasionale Party in histories-etiese perspektief

rejected and ignored by the National However, after repeated and widely publicised revolt against apartheid measures among the South black population in the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s, occasions which prompted the apartheid government to resort to a state of emergency, the policy was rejected worldwide. This led to South Africa’s increasing economic and political international isolation coercing the then South African government to abandon the idea of apartheid as a means towards peaceful coexistence in 1985. Whilst it already became clear in the 1980’s that apartheid was unsustainable, the policy was only officially terminated after the democratic elections held in 1994.