They also went to school and college( HOW ELSE COULD NELSON MANDELA GET A LAW DEGREE ? ), own property, and held jobs and not just menial ones, long before Apartheid was ever installed and after it had been.
You neither know anything much, that is factual, about that nation and its history, but you are rabidly ignorant and proud of the falsities that you continue to post.
All media is state owned there; even with that kind of censorship, with blacks now running the newspapers, in the second year of Mandela's reign.....the papers had 1/2 front page high headlines of :"BRING BACK APARTHEID NOW!". This was NOT sanctioned, it was NOT written nor begun by whites of any background, but rather, was a reaction to how bad things were then and things have only gotten far better as the years have passed.
It would behoove you to not comment on tropics you don't know nor understand.
“Blacks were first given the right to vote, in South Africa, in 1914.”
That’s a distortion to say the least:
http://www.content.eisa.org.za/old-page/south-africa-historical-franchise-arrangements