Originally Posted by Olifant

It makes perfect sense you just don't know what Apartheid was.

Apartheid was the effort to separate the black and white economies completely effectually creating two different nations with respective territories. Thus hiring blacks and investing in black companies etc was forbidden and vice-versa.

The problem was that Apartheid was poorly implemented since Afrikaner nationalism was strong with it. Instead of creating seperate nations the Apartheid created a situation where blacks had no source of national economy and became dependent upon the white economy.

It's ironic because that was the theory of Apartheid, an integrated economy means eventual political and social integration.

The exact failures of Apartheid are immense to detail but it was basically a lack of will of elitists to give-up their dependence on cheap black labour. Had they not been so hard-headed the inevitable result would have been a strange set of states in the South African region with many of them over-weighted by high population densities.