Word: afrikanerism
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Prejudice certainly is widespread. Apart from a few extremist groups such as the Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging, which bears more than a faint resemblance to the Nazis, ideological racism is rare. Whites do not openly make bigoted remarks. The literature of the ruling Nationalist Party contains no derogatory references to Blacks...
The disturbances and sabotage dramatized the mounting tension and deepening sense of foreboding that have come to pervade South Africa. Despite some recent loosening of the white supremacist apartheid laws, blacks, who form 71.5% of the population of 27.7 million, are insisting with increasing militance that the time has come...
The fiercely proud, tribally insular Afrikaner elite faces an increasingly irreconcilable dilemma: how to avoid massive civil unrest and bloodshed without relinquishing at least some power to the overwhelmingly nonwhite majority. The 2½-year-old government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha, 65, has tried to make a beginning by...
South Africa's recent national elections, in which nonwhites were not allowed to vote, reflected unprecedented division within Botha's ruling National Party over the pace and scope of future "accommodations." Though the party, which has been in power since 1948, maintained its iron grasp on the government...
The opposition Progressive Federal Party, a bastion of South Africa's English-speaking white minority, attracted enough support at the polls from liberal Afrikaners to increase its parliamentary strength by nine, to 26. On the right, the ultraconservative Herstigte Nasionale Party (H.N.P.) drew 191,249 votes, compared with only...