Word: afrikanerism
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"You know," says Turnbull to a junior officer, "I sometimes think we learn about horses from women, and about women from horses." "A year ago I was a child," Boete tells his girl. "Now I am almost a man." At this level of pure romanticism, the book offers certain delights...
Rupert's rise is all the more remarkable because he is an Afrikaner. Traditionally in South Africa, the Dutch-descended Afrikaners tend the farms while English-speaking South Africans tend to business. Though Afrikaners run the country politically, only 6% of South Africa's industry is Afrikaner-owned...
Rupert shuns South Africa's bruising party politics, and despite his Dutch ancestry, bristles at being called an Afrikaner. "I'm a light-skinned South African,'' he snaps. "Leave it at that." No friend to racial integration, Rupert campaigns actively for white immigration to bolster South...
This year Verwoerd is pumping $4,200,000 into the immigrant assistance program, has urged private organizations to help South Africa's campaign overseas. Only a few years ago, the Afrikaner regime was discouraging immigrants from Britain for fear of losing control in the bitter political struggle of white...
In fact, none of the black nations to the north are nearly strong enough to rally their troops for invasion of the despised white stronghold on Africa's southern tip. It might come one day, but hardly soon. The psychosis of fear being whipped up by Prime Minister Hendrik...