... While the white minority National Party government passed and implemented oppressive apartheid laws, black South Africans responded by intensifying their political opposition in the form of protests, marches, strikes and boycotts. The repressive laws of the apartheid system introduced and practiced by the white minority National Party government after 1948, certainly made black resistance difficult but not impossible. In 1948, the National Party government under Daniel Malan came to power and systemised apartheid as law, and so began the introduction of a series of unjust and repressive laws which set the seeds for black resistance within South Africa. Initially, the aim of system of apartheid was to maintain white domination while extending racial separation. A statement made by J.H. Hofmeyr, who was a member of a minority party in parliament explained the fear of black domination. "It is a perfectly natural fear...,fear of the White man being drowned in a Black ...

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