... 'white' vote. These promises proved to be vote-winners amongst whites. I think that social reasons were quite important reasons for apartheid being set up, as they promised the security of whites, who were afraid of losing control over South Africa and losing their Afrikaner identity. Other reasons for the setting up of apartheid were down to racism. The white Afrikaners believed that they were superior to blacks and that they were 'chosen by God'. Despite the fact that the blacks were the natives of South Africa, the Afrikaners believed that South Africa belonged to them (even though they were descendants from Holland, and had enslaved the natives and taken control over South Africa). The Afrikaners also felt that whites needed control over South Africa in order for it to prosper - they thought that inequality was a necessity. They thought that blacks should not have any amount of control because they ...

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