Some thoughts about South Africa in the 50s-80s: Opposition to apartheid increased both internally and internationally. Nonwhites began terror campaigns against it, whites began to think of themselves as oppressors, and the international community imposed increasing penalties.
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Addendum: Maybe the whites thought the constitution would protect them? Perhaps it did for a number of years, but now the majority is amending the constitution.
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What a tough spot they were in. The only solution would have been to kick out the blacks/partition 60+ years ago when they could have gotten away with doing so. By 1980, there was no solution.
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I suspect that if they could have gotten the whites in line and made them take the 50% financial hit, then partition could have worked. But the whites didn't understand what was to come.
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I did a few tweets on this but Afrikaners did try to partition the nation with bantustans. Didn’t workhttps://twitter.com/fred_watson_ii/status/1032798415346909184?s=21 …
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They needed a true partition plan with full national sovereignty, not just that.
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Agreed, basically set up multiple mini-Botswanas. From what I read, they couldn’t get the largest landowners on board. Sanctions hurt, but they could weather the storm due to their massive resource deposits. Internal betrayal.
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