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Apartheid

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/* 1983 Whites-only referendum */
In 1983 President PW Botha put the question of allowing Colored and Indian representation to the White electorate. 66% of Whites voted to allow Coloreds and Indians their own houses of parliament (called the House of Representatives and the House of Delegates respectively).
 
Although many ultra-nationalistic and conservative Whites attacked the move as it was power-sharing (which they feared would result in Black rule, and indeed it did some 11 years later).
==The Troubles==
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