Reasons for National Party Victory 1948
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- Reasons for the National Party victory 1948
- Impact of WW2 on economy
- Labour needed so laws relaxed on Africans
- Africans got less pay
- Afrikaners scared Africans take their jobs while they fought in war
- Smuts (PM at time) said segregation had failed
- 1942 African deputy PM encouraged relaxed education and employment laws
- Growth of Afrikaner nationalism + Nazi support
- Some Afrikaners worked for pro - Nazi places
- Verwoerd published Die Transvaaler for National Party - pro nazi stance
- Afrikaners joined fascist movements
- Nazi Party in SA claimed to have 250,000 members by 1939
- Jan Smuts problems
- Smuts' United Party expected to win but was too old and tired
- Afrikaners didn't agree with his close ties in WW2
- Election campaign lacked new ideas
- Weak police on race relations
- Post war reunify among Afrikaners
- Afrikaners created own businesses over finance concerns
- Dutch reformed churches provided Afrikaner schools and cultural activities
- National Party
- Suggested Apartheid
- Treat Africans as foreigners, only allowed in SA as guests. Only allowed in their reserves
- Recieved international crtism as anti - colonial movments developed. Due to Europe having empires in Africa
- Suggested Apartheid
- United Nations
- India had first discusion on apartheid about treatment of SA Indians 1946.
- UN coucil condemned it every year from 1952
- Became an ally agaisnt communism
- Impact of WW2 on economy
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