Foreign relations of South Africa during apartheid refers to the foreign relations of South Africa between 1948 and the early 1990s. South Africa introduced apartheid in 1948, as a systematic extension of pre-existing racial discrimination laws. Initially the regime implemented an offensive foreign policy trying to consolidate South African hegemony over Southern Africa. These attempts had clearly failed by the late 1970s. As a result of its racism, occupation of Namibia and foreign interventionism in Angola, the country became increasingly isolated internationally.
Initial relations
In the aftermath of World War II and the Nazi Holocaust, the Western world began distancing itself from ideas of racial dominance and policies based on racial prejudice, though it would still take years to fully disappear from official policy in parts, as exemplified by the jim Crow laws of the United States. Racially discriminatory and segregationist principles were not novelties in South Africa, given the racial make-up of their society. From unification in 1910, the state had been run by the white...
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