There was just simply not enough whites to fill the roles of labour thus the Bantu were imperative to the the economic aspect of apartheid as they were base of the network. As stated within Adam Heribert and Kogila Moodley's South Africa Without Apartheid: Dismantling Racial Domination, "Apartheid capitalism, Robert Davies and Dan O'Meara assert, "is fundamentally incapable of resolving the crisis without destroying itself" (Moodley and Heribert, Without Apartheid, 146-7). This assertion within the Moodley and Heribert text gives insight into the delusions of the National Party during this era. To give a cliche analogy, the apartheid government was continually trying to put a band aid on a third degree burn. .
The Afrikaners were a living fallacy in the sense that they thought that they could continually stop the floodgates from opening if they could contain the problem of insurrection, however, the very measures of containment that were used only further discredited their ideologies causing more international and domestic resistance to their cause. This Afrikaner myth is exemplified in Hard Right written by van Rooyen when he says, "Africa's poor record on democracy, human and minority rights was always a source of great anxiety to South African whites. Living on the "dark continent" and with the fear of blacks etched on their consciousness, white South Africans have always been easy targets for the swart gevaar (the black threat) propaganda with which the NP succeeded in scaring generations of whites into supporting it, a fact on which the right wing has capitalized "( van Rooyen, Hard Right, 56).
The National Party could not have alleviated the myriad of problems it had without causing total destruction to the "system " it had built. .
These problems came in the form of a growing push back from a newly galvanized and educated black youth along with a major shift in U.S foreign policies towards South Africa.