Word: afrikanerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yet if he moves to appease black workers, Prime Minister Botha risks the wrath of Afrikaner hardliners, who abhor his apartheid reforms. Soon after Thozamile Botha's walkout, white union members held an angry meeting that led to an outburst of racial slurs; blacks were accused of "fouling" integrated...
Flanked by his Cabinet, South Africa's Prime Minister P.W. Botha, 63, stood up in a hall in Johannesburg last week and made an unprecedented appeal. His basic goal was unstated but well understood by his audience of 250 English-speaking businessmen, who have long dominated South Africa'...
Botha has also run into heated opposition from the verkrampte (rigid) wing of South Africa's ruling Nationalist Party. The solemn, humorless Prime Minister has been heckled as a "Judas" by Afrikaner audiences. In four parliamentary by-elections last month, more than half the eligible voters boycotted the balloting...
Despite his proposed reform of petty apartheid, Botha has no intention of altering the long-range goal of Nationalist policy: maintaining white sovereignty in South Africa as head of a "constellation of states," that might include ten quasi-autonomous tribal homelands, as well as Zambia and Zimbabwe Rhodesia, as a...
Challenging his fellow Afrikaners to "adapt or die," Botha announced last week that he would seek new laws permitting black workers who do not have permanent resident status in white areas to organize trade unions. He also proposed changes that would permit blacks to eat in white restaurants and qualify...