Word: afrikanerism
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THE 10,000 KHAKI-CLAD AFRIKANER FARMERS WERE seething. Demonstrating under a hot Transvaal sun in Potchefstroom last week, they shouted down a junior minister in President F.W. de Klerk's Cabinet when he rose to address them. Then they gave a standing ovation to retired South African Defense Force...
To be fair, De Klerk has never concealed his determination to ensure that the Afrikaner-dominated National Party, in power since 1948, continues to govern. But recent events leave little doubt about his real agenda: not majority rule for blacks but power sharing, with as much power as possible retained...
Together with leader Eugene TerreBlanche, Rudolph founded the A.W.B. in 1973. The most important of its objectives, he maintains, is the re- establishment of an Afrikaner nation in the Transvaal and Orange Free State provinces. Either large townships like Soweto would be partitioned out of the white state, or else...
The "Battle of Ventersdorp," as Rudolph proudly calls it, was not his first run-in with the white authorities. In 1990 he broke into air-force headquarters in Pretoria and stole a large cache of weapons. With the police on his tail, he disappeared underground for six months and tried...
As Afrikaner civil servants stream out of Pretoria heading for their middle- class suburbs, Rudolph is eager to make a move. It may not be much longer, he speculates, before South Africa descends into civil war. If De Klerk hands over power to the A.N.C., he predicts, the volk will...