Word: afrikanerism
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There is a well-worn jest in South Africa that the country's "colored problem" actually began about nine months after the first Dutch settlers landed at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. However, in the strictly segregated society that has developed since, it is no laughing matter...
Botha's decision to go to the country for endorsement of his leadership, 19 months before the law requires him to do so, appeared to be carefully calculated. It was timed to capitalize on a still booming economy and was aimed at strengthening his hand against the recalcitrant right...
Michener has necessarily compressed much of that history into an almost biblical form, begetting his own intertwining generations of English, black and Afrikaner families-the Saltwoods, Nxuma-los and Van Dooms. He describes the public politeness and private ruthlessness, the arranged frontier marriages-homely Dutch orphan girls shipped out to...
In an act of faith that contradicts many of his own facts, Michener finds the possibility of a mother lode: "A grand coalition of black capacity, Coloured adaptability, English skill and Afrikaner force could forge a nation that would be one of the most powerful on earth, situated in one...
For Pretoria, the Ciskei vote was a way of trying to show that the whole homelands strategy was worth salvaging, despite a barrage of doubts about it even by the Afrikaner establishment. For months South African editorials have de cried the lack of progress toward making the black territories self...