Word: afrikanerism
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To his surprise, from the moment of his arrival and especially during his reporting for this week's cover story, McWhirter found all classes and races of South Africans willing, even eager, to cooperate. "This country has a surprising effect on everyone today," he says. "Our office is more...
"Hoor, hoor [Hear, hear]!" shouted the square-jawed Afrikaner farmers and their dutiful wives, as one speaker after another referred to the guest of honor as "a gladiator," "a saint" and "a savior." Dour and unsmiling, he sat stolidly, barely nodding his acknowledgment of the eulogies. When at last he...
Never better for Vorster's Nationalists, that is; the political arm of the Afrikaners held 123 of the 171 seats in the previous Parliament, and it stands to gain as many as 15 more in the national election on Nov. 30. The opposition parties that traditionally held the loyalty of...
In effect, a great gamble is involved in the pressure ploys against South Africa. Among other things, the U.S. and Britain are banking on Vorster's support in gaining independence for Namibia (South West Africa) and Rhodesia. If they overplay their hand at the U.N., they risk the loss...
Such impositions may seem slight to outsiders, but each small commandment inflicts its own small cut-slowly removing the world from the man, slowly reducing the areas in which he is free to make even small decisions. Woods is already treated as though he suffers some undiagnosed illness. Friends become...