WI: All white South Africans oppose apartheid?

The South African apartheid was a dark part of the nation's past, a period they'd like to forget and it is known that many white Afrikaners opposed the segregation system. But what if they all opposed it? Would that be possible? Would supremacist groups emerge should it be rejected? Would it affect the economy in any manner?
 
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I highly doubt that the entirety of them would oppose the very policies that made their way of life possible. A strong majority of them might be opposed to the more overtly cruel aspects of apartheid, and prefer that the discrimination be more quietly cruel instead, but getting them to buck the system that gave them their position(s) in society seems unlikely to me. Supremacist groups would/will always exist, that's a given IMO. As far as the economy goes, it would definitely be impacted, but the extent to which it's impacted depends on how exactly apartheid is dismantled (and, again, whether or not it was truly opposition to apartheid as a system or simply the more insidious aspects of it).
 
The South African apartheid was a dark part of the nation's past, a period they'd like to forget and it is known that many white Afrikaners opposed the segregation system. But what if they all opposed it? Would that be possible? Would supremacist groups emerge should it be rejected? Would it affect the economy in any manner?

If all white South Africans opposed apartheid then there wouldn't be apartheid, simple as. The NP wouldn't have won in 1948 and the UP would probably have continued with its gradualist approach. If all South Africans were opposed to apartheid maybe someone like the Progs would have come into power at some point.
 

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The NP "win" in 1948 was an artifact of the FPTP system on top of the constituencies being very heavily biased towards rural districts. The NP (and friends) won 79 seats - out of 153 - with 41% of the vote versus 74 seat and 59% of the vote of everybody else.
This allowed the NP to introduce apartheid. Swing the vote a bit in 1948 and you never (?) get apartheid as the UP will fix the system as to eliminate the possibility of the NP ever winning.
Apartheid, same as Communism, Fascism or Nazism - was introduced by a minority with religious faith in their creed. And woe to those who oppose The Revealed Truth.
 
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