Apartheid in South Africa

... 2. Before the 1994 elections many white South Africans were against giving up the white majority rule. This was mainly because whites were scared blacks would take revenge on them for all the years of hardship they'd been through under apartheid. Especially as the whites put apartheid in place. The whites feared that giving up the white majority rule would mean all their land and most of their white towns would be taken over by blacks who would move in for work, which they proberly wouldn't find because even after the end of apartheid blacks will still be looked down upon by the whites. The whites feared their land would be redistributed, as it was almost certain that the ANC was going to win the 1994 elections, and one of their election promises was to redistribute the land to the blacks. Basically what redistribution of the land was, was the blacks getting

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