Among blacks, it ignited hopes as never before of an end to apartheid and for the establishment, possibly within five years, of a black-led government.
South Africa now has a black-led but mixed-race government.
This served to dramatize mixed-race fears of losing out under a black-led government.
In recent days, the police reported that Boeremag was still intent on violently overthrowing South Africa's black-led government.
The Constitution of the short-lived Zimbabwe Rhodesia, which saw a black-led government elected for the first time, reserved 28 of the 100 parliamentary seats for whites.
In 1964, when white minority rule crumbled and the country became Zambia, the Watts, fearful of their future under a new black-led government, fled to Zimbabwe.
With the end of white rule, the iniquities of the system were laid bare, and the black-led government that came to power in 1994, has striven to change that.
With the support of the sole Labour Party MP the PLP was able to form the country's first black-led government.
Stamps advocated co-operation with the new black-led government.
The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, in succession to Ian Smith and under his power-sharing deal.