In the TAs defense the National Party ran on a platform of apartheid in the 1940s did lose the popular vote but won the parliament through gerrymandering.
Not only that, but the National Party were so rabid that in 1948 D.F Malan - their new prime minister - proposed in an actual parliament speech to deprive white English-speaking citizens of the vote.
God alone knows how they were going to enforce that in a completely multi-lingual society.
God alone knows how they were going to enforce that in a completely multi-lingual society.
Strange times. A warning to us all.