The National Party won an election in which only white South Africans voted, campaigning on apartheid. The victory formalized a new government program of racial separation on top of a much older colonial order of land seizure, racial hierarchy, and political exclusion. South African History Online records that Mandela was stunned and dismayed. The election sharpened the question confronting the ANC: whether petitions could answer a state consolidating white minority rule.
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