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What problems did the National party face within South Africa?
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- 1Liberal oppositionIn 1959 11 Liberal MP's formed the progressive party, In 1974 the progressive party increased their seats from 1 to 7, UP also got won 41 seats with 363,000 votes, however splintered after 1978
- 2Troubles in the BantustansThe government pushed forward with Bantustans, they were still heavily reliable on SA for revenues
- 3ResistanceAfter buthelezi refused to hold independence elections, large military expenditure became the norm; this helped maintain apartheid but also had huge cost
- 4VerligtesRecognised need for better training for blacks to increase work relations
- 5VerkramptesWanted rapid implementation of separate development, Vorster sided with this
- 6Information scandalVorster gave Connie mulder a large amount of public money to influence propaganda in and outside of country, government were shocked stepped down in 1978 replaced by Botha
- 7Economic and population crisisEconomy started to stagflate, and African population rose from 11-29 million putting huge pressure on apartheid
- 81973 oil crisisSent the world into recession, National Party set up SASOL only provided 1/3 of SA needs and was very expensive
- 9Example of population growthIn Kwandebele population boomed from 32,000 in 1972 to 200,000 in 1985; PUTCO bus company 1975 had two busses, 263 in 1984; workers woke up at 4 to get a 100mile bus ride to Pretoria
- 10Problem of population growthDuring early 1980's pass laws were successfully challenged in court, combined with stagnation the growing urban migration was un-changeable
- 11Botha and the economyDe-regulated sports teams, gave blacks long term property leases and massively increased promises of working security. These were huge ideological changes
- 12Constitutional changesHe created presidents council 1980 with coloureds, Indiand and whites; making himself a tricameral presidents
Did very little for blacks created very biased black councils
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