 There, France and its white Algerian minority did not give up power peacefully, which led to the violence of the war.In Smith's view, too much nostalgia for the old days of special "cultural rights" risked a similar disaster; white Afrikaners should not complain about the black-dominated government in racial terms or ask for an end to affirmative action, but instead be loyal citizens of South Africa.Smith died of a heart attack on 19 June 2010.