In the TAs defense the National Party ran on a platform of apartheid in the 1940s did lose the popular vote but won the parliament through gerrymandering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_South_African_general_ele...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_South_African_general_ele...
God alone knows how they were going to enforce that in a completely multi-lingual society.
Strange times. A warning to us all.