Word: afrikanerism
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Botha gave his people exactly what they wanted. For two hours he tore down critics and shored up Afrikaner morale. Defiantly, he urged his white followers to "shed the spirit of defeatism and doubt" in the face of economic sanctions. Defensively, he railed against an "international conspiracy" that aimed to...
His 25-minute speech, given not in the glare of prime time but to at afternoon gathering of foreign-policy groups, offered nothing new in the way of putting pressure on the intransigent Afrikaner-led South African government. Although it was meant to calm the debate over sanctions, it brought...
In her address to the graduating class of the University of Cape Town last week, Helen Suzman, the best-known opposition member of the South African Parliament, delivered a stinging rebuke to the Afrikaner-dominated government. Not only was South Africa divided into white and black worlds, she declared, but...
Bulldozers last week razed the charred ruins at Crossroads, a black squatter camp five miles southeast of Cape Town, where fierce fighting between radical youths and conservative vigilante groups left at least 36 dead and more than 30,000 homeless. At the same time, the South African government was debating...
At a time of sharply escalating racial unrest, who is the most popular South African leader among the country's white minority? State President P.W. Botha, who is pushing for limited reforms? Archbishop-elect Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose cries for change have been tempered by condemnations...