South African apartheid: The homeland-township nexus, 1948-1986.

Opinion. Attempts to define the tightening followed by the loosening of the hegemony of apartheid in South Africa between 1948 and 1986. What is cited as a key turning point in the history of apartheid of the 1948 to 1977 period; Background information on apartheid; Perception that the fear of possible mass insurrection appears to have been a key motive for the earlier segregation movement of the inter-war period; Reference to the Bantu Authorities Act of 1951.