How Apartheid was established

Question 1

Remove the opposition

Answer 1

-National Party set about removing the vote of the Coloured population of South Africa by passing a law in 1951 abolishing it
-Appointed new Afrikaner judges to rule any challenges in court in their favour and packing the Senate with sympathetic Afrikaners

Question 2

Increase the number of Afrikaners in state employment

Answer 2

-Afrikaners moved to appoint allies to the most important positions in the army, policy and civil service

Question 3

Build the system of apartheid by passing extensive legislation

Answer 3

-Nationalists came up with the theory of ‘separate development’
-Africans would lose many rights in white controlled areas of South Africa, but would gain rights elsewhere
-Afrikaners had convinced themselves that African people saw themselves as a tribal people