Word: barend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foreign Minister Pik Botha and Finance Minister Barend du Plessis criticized police action in whipping Blacks off a white beach during the election campaign, while Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok defended the action...
...Botha government's slow reforms face a far more menacing threat from the ultra-right. Last week, in a mad act of violence, Barend Strydom, 23, an Afrikaner ex-policeman, gunned down blacks on a street in downtown Pretoria, smiling as he killed six and injured 17. Strydom belonged to the neofascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement (A.W.B.), whose members openly whip up racial feelings. Public shock led the government to ban a still more radical group, the tiny so-called B.B.B., or White Liberation Movement, as a clear warning to the A.W.B. and other avowed right-wing groups that the government...