Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - MuSouth Africa yeApartheid (1948<unk>1994), hurumende yeAfrikaner yeNationalist Party yakakonzera kukakavadzana kukuru kwezvematongerwo enyika pakati peUnited States neSoviet Union nekuda kwekudzora kwechisimba kwevanhu veAfrikaner uye kudzvinyirira kwezvematongerwo enyika kwevanhu vatema uye vane ruvara veSouth Africa vakashandiswa pasi pechiratidzo chekurwisa-communism uye kuchengetedzwa kwenyika. Soviet Union yakatsigira zviri pamutemo kubviswa kworusaruraganda nepo kuMadokero uye zvikurukuru United States zvakachengeta kusatora rutivi pamutemo panhau yacho. Munguva ya1976-1977 yehondo inotonhora, United States nedzimwe nyika dzekuMadokero vakaona zvisingaiti kutsigira zvematongerwo enyika rusaruro muSouth Africa, kunyanya apo hurumende yeAfrikaner yakauraya vanhu 176 (vadzidzi nevakuru) mukudzvinyirira kwemapurisa kweSoweto uprising.
(June 1976), kupikisa kwezvematongerwo enyika kupesana neAfrikaner tsika yeumambo pavanhu vasiri vachena veSouth Africa, kunyanya kumanikidza mutauro wechiGerman weAfrikaans semutauro wedzidzo iyo vatema veSouth Africa vaifanira kutaura pavanenge vachitaura nevachena uye maAfrikaners; uye kuurayiwa kwemapurisa kwaSteven Biko (Gunyana 1977), mutungamiri wezvematongerwo enyika wepakati nepakati wekuramba kwemukati kurwisa rusarura muSouth Africa.