Word: afrikanerism
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Amid the evasions, rationalizations and semantic games, some very real change is occurring, even though many white Africans still oppose even the small concessions the government has made. "Change" itself, like "progress," is a dirty word, regarded as a code term for subversion. The euphemism to be used is "movement...
Although formal black leadership is constantly harassed and suppressed, there are innumerable blacks who think, talk and, indirectly, lead. Mostly they are bitter and angry. Their bitterness is directed not only at the government but at the liberals, who are seen as more hypocritical than the Afrikaner. When Diamond Tycoon...
"What many Afrikaners believe to be their policy of raising the black man gradually to a better life is perceived in the outside world as a simple sham to preserve the perks of the good life for the whites. Preservation of Afrikaner political power has determined the country's...
Most of Vorster's acquaintances would agree that the dour Afrikaner is a strange leader for an age of reform. Says Chief Gatsha Buthelezi of the Zulus, South Africa's largest tribe: "When I'm in church and I'm singing, 1 love not to see the distant scene: one...
A deceptively cherubic man of 58, Jimmy Kruger is a traditional Afrikaner puritan, the product of a farming family and a correspondence-course college education. As Justice Minister, he seems to enjoy the diversion of cracking down on Sunday movies, which are technically illegal under South Africa's blue...