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Why was the apartheid policy introduced in South Africa? What were its main features?

  • UPSC 2022
  • Liberation from Colonial Rule

The question has two distinct parts, and the causes of apartheid's introduction deserve more weight than a mere restatement of its already well-known legislative features.

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  • Afrikaner Nationalism and the 1948 Election
  • Fear of Racial Equality After Decolonization
  • Precedents: Segregation Before Apartheid
  • Economic Self-Interest: Control of Cheap Black Labour
  • Ideological and Religious Legitimation
  • The Main Features

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