ABSTRACT
Apartheid had been implemented inside South Africa through anintricate series of laws and regulations carefully constructed to sep-arate the races into a hierarchy of power with all groups subservient to white rule. Throughout the 1950s, the South African government had enacted legislation that controlled every aspect of its citizens’ lives based on race. Members of each racial group were classified, told where to live, what schools to attend, whom they could marry, and how much money they could earn at work. Despite its all-encompassing reach, however, the apartheid structure had been designed on an ad hoc basis in response to ongoing challenges from the African population. In this manner, apartheid also created some glaring contradictions and unintended results that threatened to destabilise the entire structure. By the 1960s, these contradictions began to emerge.
