<Li> A republic would solve none of South Africa's problems; it would only make them worse, especially the racial problem, to which the Commonwealth was increasingly opposed . </Li> <Li> The NP had supposedly not given one good reason for the change . </Li> <Li> The ruling party already had twelve years to bring about national unity but had only driven the two white sects further apart . </Li> <Li> A republic could be established by a majority of just one vote . This did not entail unity nor, indeed, democracy . </Li>

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