Strengthening Apartheid: Part II

CHALLENGES FACING THE NP AND THE APARTHEID STATE 1978-1983:

GROWTH OF ‘LIBERALISM’:

• Focus on equality

• Equal application of rights/opportunities

• Focus in freedom, religion, political affiliation, sexuality, race 

• Progressive capitalism

• End of segregation

• Fair education, some political rights, equal application of law

ENTRENCHED ‘CONSERVATISM’:

• Pushing towards even greater segregation

• Spending on Bantustans/transport decreased

• Restrictions of black mobility

• Increased spendings on security and policies

DECLINE OF THE BANTUSTANS:

• Four granted full independence

• All dependent on SA for subsidies

• 25% of africans in employment lived in the bantustans

• 3% of SA GDP came from bantustans

• Leaders were unpopular

• Could not support populations

INTERNAL FACTIONS WITHIN THE NP:

• Dividing into opposing wings 

• Groups formed

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