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The apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of bilateral and multi-party negotiations between 1990 and 1993. The negotiations culminated in the passage of a new interim Constitution in 1993, a precursor to the Constitution of 1996; and in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994, won by the African National Congress (ANC) liberation movement.
This is a list of acts of the Parliament of South Africa enacted in the years 1970 to 1979. South African acts are uniquely identified by the year of passage and an act number within that year. Some acts have gone by more than one short title in the course of their existence; in such cases each title is listed with the years in which it applied.
21 – Prime Minister John Vorster and Prime Minister of Rhodesia Ian Smith hold private talks. June. 12 – Mangosuthu Buthelezi is elected first Chief Executive Officer of the black homeland of KwaZulu. December. 7 – The U.N. General Assembly supports the isolation of South Africa for its apartheid policies.
It was the target of frequent condemnation in the United Nations and brought about extensive international sanctions, including arms embargoes and economic sanctions on South Africa. [14] During the 1970s and 1980s, internal resistance to apartheid became increasingly militant, prompting brutal crackdowns by the National Party ruling government ...
In the late 1960s South Africa's apartheid regime became increasingly politically isolated, both internationally and continental. Under Prime Minister B.J. Vorster it developed the so-called "outward-looking policy", an effort to bind southern African countries economically, and in this way to discourage them from openly criticising its repressive internal politics.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the NP-led white apartheid government faced internal unrest in South Africa and international pressure for the discrimination of non-Whites in South Africa.
Mass action against the ruling National Party (NP) government, coupled with South Africa's growing international isolation and economic sanctions, were instrumental in leading to negotiations to end apartheid, which began formally in 1990 and ended with South Africa's first multiracial elections under a universal franchise in 1994. [6] [4]
In September 1988, he made a pilgrimage to countries bordering South Africa, while demonstratively avoiding South Africa itself. During his visit to Zimbabwe, he called for economic sanctions against the South African government. [6] Other Western countries adopted a more ambivalent position at first.