Word: afrikanerism
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Berserk Rule. Despite the official hard line, there were expectations that the Afrikaans requirement would be modified or dropped. "You don't know what stupid subterfuges we have had to use to enable our children to learn something," said one Soweto council member. "We have met the Afrikaans requirement...
The dour, stocky political patriarch of South Africa, Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster, 60, has the ironfistedness his fellow Afrikaners call kragdadigheid. He was known as "Jackboot John" when he served as Justice Minister under his National Party predecessor, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd (who was stabbed by a demented clerk on...
Vorster is no liberal. He has been known to order police to investigate people who ask him embarrassing questions at public meetings. He supports apartheid out of deep Afrikaner conviction, even though he has eased some of its more humiliating aspects. But he has also rammed ahead with the Bantustan...
Saintly people who focus attention on oppression can expect to pay for their actions. In South Africa, criticism of the country's racist policies has brought a harsh punishment to Dutch Reformed Minister C.F. Beyers Naude. Pastor Naude, now 60, was a prominent, rising churchman and Afrikaner supremacist until...
The government's reaction to the increased resistance to the regime, rather predictably, has been to increase its repression of political dissenters. Last month, the police rounded up a noted Afrikaner poet, several African leaders, white student leaders, clergy and university teachers under the Terrorism Act which was passed in...