Lesson 4-A Drink in the Passage III. Apartheid Afrikaner National Party was able to gain a strong ONG WALK TO FREEDOM majority. Strategists in the National Party invented apartheid as a means to cement their control over the economic and social system. Initially aim of the aLIsoN MaNdila apartheid was to maintain white domination while extending racial separation Starting in the 1960s, a plan of"Grand Apartheid"was executed emphasizing territorial separation and police repression W E To be continued on the next page.Lesson 4—A Drink in the Passage W B T L E III. Apartheid To be continued on the next page. Afrikaner National Party was able to gain a strong majority. Strategists in the National Party invented apartheid as a means to cement their control over the economic and social system. Initially, aim of the apartheid was to maintain white domination while extending racial separation. Starting in the 1960s, a plan of “Grand Apartheid” was executed, emphasizing territorial separation and police repression