Africa Notes: South Africa: An Unconventional Republican View - November 1987

November 30, 1987

Those who argued back in the early 1960s that an end to whites-only government in South Africa would not come until the end of the century were dismissed as hopelessly conservative and even at times “racist.” The winds of change were said to be irresistible, immediate, and at gale force. Twenty-five years later, we may now be beginning to see the beginning of the end of 300 years of white-controlled government.