This is a complex question to answer because it overlaps many historical events of the time. read more
Straight from Wikipedia (Apartheid in South Africa: ) The election of 1948 In the run-up to the 1948 elections, the main Afrikaner nationalist party, the Herenigde Nasionale Party (Reunited National Party) under the leadership of Protestant cleric Daniel Francois Malan campaigned on its policy of apartheid. read more