One conversation that is missing is WHY was apartheid implemented in the first place? The answer no one wants to discuss is the fact that there was uncontrolled illegal immigration into South Africa.
Actually, the controversy in the 1948 election was the government permitting legal immigration of English speakers. The Boers were worried that if enough English speakers immigrated they would out-vote the Boers. The Boers loved their low-cost black labor, who couldn’t vote anyway.