ANSWER: Money and Power. Although racism has been mingled in with the South African Apartheid, the military campaigns were about African diamonds and gold mines
(war money). In the late 1700s, gold was reported in South Africa, and with Imperial War in Europe between neighbors, South Africa was pinned as a
major funding resource and a region for soldiers of fortune. In the early 1800s, Britain fought Dutch positions, and bartered with African militia in the Boer Wars. In the coming World Wars of the late 1800s and early 1900s, the claims for land, territory, and gold became blurred and distorted, mixing with racial and ethnic ideology, using a long list of separatist legislative policies and acts to maintain power and a long term Euro-presence in South Africa. Racism became a toxic campaign tool to unite, and eventually over time, the illusion of a progressive South Africa was unable to move forward without major reforms in Government.
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