Word: afrikanerism
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The election-eve bombings are more likely to signal the last gasp of a weak, splintered racist Afrikaner minority than the start of the long-threatened great Boer revolt. Three of the 32 arrested are close to Terreblanche, including leaders of his personal bodyguard unit, the elite Iron Guard. The...
The election drove a wedge between Terreblanche and his political ally, Afrikaner Volksfront leader Ferdinand Hartzenberg, and the supporters of former South African Defense Force chief Constand Viljoen. All three men want an Afrikaner state, or volkstaat, but Terreblanche and Hartzenberg believe it can be achieved only by the gun...
Viljoen was wooed away from the hard-liners with a promise from the African National Congress that a volkstaat council would be set up in the new government to explore the possibility of an Afrikaner homeland. The A.N.C. has largely defused the right-wing threat, placating many frightened whites by...
Perhaps predictably, a group of bloody-minded white rightists had tried -- and failed -- to disrupt the process of change. They had launched a campaign of small bombings against railways, power lines and A.N.C. offices in the conservative farm region west of Johannesburg. Then last week they detonated powerful car bombs...
South Africa's whites had methodically segregated blacks, paid them a pittance, ignored their housing and barely pretended to educate them. Blacks were not second-class citizens but third or fourth class. Suddenly last week, by agreement, the whites stepped back and passed the government to that eager but ill...