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The paper relates that the Afrikaner National Party (ANP) shared power until the 1940s when the ANP gained a majority of seats in the government. The paper discusses how apartheid was in the beginning an attempt to solidify control over the financial and social systems of South Africa and the aim was to keep white dominance in place. The paper explains that in order to accomplish this goal, the racial separation between whites and blacks needed to continue. The paper argues that Grand Apartheid was a plan that was executed in the 1960s in South Africa that had as its objectives to continue territorial separation and police repression of blacks (Callinicos, 1996).

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"South Africa is a nation filled with natural resources that have been stolen from its citizens for nearly a century. Colonization of South Africa by the English and the Dutch began in the 17th century. Diamond discoveries began in the 1900's. The Boer War with the English was a result of the discovery of diamonds in South Africa (Callinicos, 1996). The Afrikaner National Party (ANP) shared power until the 1940's when the ANP gained a majority of seats in the government. Apartheid was in the beginning an attempt to solidify control over the financial and social systems of South Africa. The aim was to keep white dominance in place."

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