Apartheid

=== Conservatism ===
Alongside apartheid, the National Party implemented a programme of social conservatism. Pornography,<ref>JCW Van Rooyen, Censorship in South Africa (Cape Town: Juta and Co., 1987), 5.</ref> [[Gambling in South Africa|gambling]]<ref>Bet and board in the new South Africa. (legalisation of gambling could lead to growth of casinos, lotteries)(Brief Article)
''The Economist'' (US) | 5 August 1995</ref> and works from [[Karl Marx|Marx]], [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] and other socialist thinkers<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fauvet |first1=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dnOIJThvRssC&pg=PA20 |title=Carlos Cardoso: Telling the Truth in Mozambique |last2=Mosse |first2=Marcelo |date=2003 |publisher=Juta and Company Ltd |isbn=978-1-919930-31-2 |pages=20 |language=en}}</ref> were banned. Cinemas, shops selling alcohol and most other businesses were [[blue law|forbidden from opening on Sundays]].<ref>Apartheid mythology and symbolism.
desegregated and re-invented in the service of
nation building in the new South Africa: the covenant and the battle of Blood/Ncome River</ref> [[Abortion]],<ref name="apfn.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.apfn.org/THEWINDS/arc_features/racial/safrica5-97.html |title=WINDS – South Africa Apartheid Defined by {{sic|Amer|cian|nolink=y}} Apartheid |publisher=Apfn.org |access-date=3 January 2011 |archive-date=12 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612134859/http://www.apfn.org/THEWINDS/arc_features/racial/safrica5-97.html |url-status=live }}</ref> homosexuality<ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1136/bmj.329.7480.1415 | volume=329 | title=Treatment of homosexuality during apartheid | year=2004 | journal=BMJ | pages=1415–1416 | last1 = Kaplan | first1 = R. M | issue=7480 | pmid=15604160 | pmc=535952}}</ref> and sex education were also restricted; abortion was legal only in cases of rape or if the mother's life was threatened.<ref name="apfn.org" />

Television [[Television in South Africa|was not introduced]] until 1976 because the government viewed English programming as a threat to the Afrikaans language.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://laboratoires.univ-reunion.fr/oracle/documents/217.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825105441/http://laboratoires.univ-reunion.fr/oracle/documents/217.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 August 2009 |title=Why South Africa's Television is only Twenty Years Old: Debating Civilisation, 1958–1969 |first=Bernard |last=Cros |year=1997 }}</ref> Television was run on apartheid lines{{snds}}TV1 broadcast in Afrikaans and English (geared to a White audience), TV2 in Zulu and Xhosa, TV3 in Sotho, Tswana and [[Northern Sotho language|Pedi]] (both geared to a Black audience), and TV4 mostly showed programmes for an urban Black audience.