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From 1960: The Sharpeville massacre further isolated apartheid South Africa
MOST observers of the African scene have assumed that however fast and far the tide of African nationalism may roll, creating one independent black state after another in its course, it would be halted, at least for a long time, at the gates of South Africa. This is still the most realistic prognosis. But it is clear that in 1960 African nationalism will challenge white supremacy in the Union as never before: a challenge which comes simultaneously from within the Union, from the north and from the wider world of diplomacy beyond—including the councils of the Commonwealth and the forum of the United Nations.
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