Problem was blacks outnumbered whites in SA by 4 to 1. Hard to sustain in that situation.
The longer Apartheid lasted, the worse things were going to be once Apartheid ended. That’s just the facts.
What’s fascinating about South Africa is the VAST majority of ‘blacks’ (as we would refer to them as Americans) that live in South Africa are of Bantu ancestry. They’re not part of the indigenous, aboriginal Khoisan people that lived in South Africa and other parts of the Kalahari desert since the beginning of humanity, essentially. Bantu - who look noticeably different than Khoisan - have really only been in South Africa for as long as the Dutch settlers have lived in South Africa.
I believe the South African government, dominated by Bantu people, still refuses to officially recognize the aboriginal status of the Khoisan people. In a way that no one in the west really wants to acknowledge, a form of apartheid still exists in South Africa today; oppression of the Khoisan in their NATIVE land. I believe this is what they call one of those inconvenient truths.
People also don't realize the end of the Soviet Union was the only thing which allowed Apartheid to end and attempts to be made at a new political power structure. As with El Salvador, Angola, Mozambique, a whole bunch of wars and revolutions suddenly "ended" when the Soviet Union collapsed.