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Also, according to Apartheid Propaganda, it was a way to keep the very large black population under control, and thus prevent South Africa from falling under control by the Communist Bloc. They would want South Africa, due to its mineral wealth and strategic location. But, when the Soviet Union started collapsing in 1987, that excuse was no longer valid. That was when the great hostilies towards the country for it began. Most overseas people would just associate South Africa with Apartheid. It's typical of human nature to focus on negative things. In South Africa, it was said that the two countries that picked on South Africa the most, namely the USA and Australia, were the two that had the most to hide, with racism. There is also mention of Global Apartheid. It's e.g. separate development of 1st and 3rd world countries, with the 1st world ones often getting richer from the 3rd. Some say that without Apartheid, the 1st world would have found some other excuses and methods to bring South Africa's economy down. And thus have less economic competition, and this time from an African country. (In those days, there were e.g. African countries with far worse atrocities that didn't seem to mean much to the outside world.)

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For the same reasons any group of people support racial supremacy. It's a sociological phenomenon that has taken place in many countries around the world, most notably in the recent past: the very similar institutionalized racial discrimination in southern states of the USA and the discrimination by the Nazis against Jews, Gypsies and gays.

Some people genuinely believe that they are better than others of another race, while some people do it because it is the prevailing belief system at the time.

For the most part, that is how people in the Apartheid era were raised, so they simply lived as their parents and society had taught them. There was strong social pressure to conform to the prevailing racism. People who questioned it were labelled traitors of their country and of their culture. The main churches of the Afrikaners also strongly supported apartheid and the concept of Afrikaner supremacy, going so far as to proclaim that the Afrikaner nation were the chosen people, like the Israelites, doing God's will.

Under such pressure it was hard not to conform.

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Basicly because there are a hell of a lot more black people in south Africa than white and the white apartheid government was afraid of what would happen if black people had the power.

They were afraid it would change their way of life.

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Apartheid disadvantaged blacks and non-elite whites by keeping them from enjoying South Africa's best resources, such as sanitation, health care, and education

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The whites owned the gold mines,the diamond mines, and the mines where some seventy other other minerals where dug from beneath the soil.

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Many white people in South Africa did NOT support apartheid. This was a very nasty political decision made by the Nationalist Party while in government.

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Made Black People feel bad for themselves

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