Word: billikheid
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...thatched Verwoerd. But Vorster has been a considerable surprise. While not basically changing South Africa's policy of racial separation, he has proved far more reasonable than his predecessor, injecting some humanity and even humor into South Africa's heavy ideological climate. South Africans call his style billikheid-sweet reasonableness...
Severe Repression. In South Africa proper, of course, the nonwhites are still severely repressed. For all the billikheid, in fact, Vorster's regime is pressing for early passage of two new bills aimed at the so-called "Colored" (mulatto) population, which once enjoyed almost equal privileges with the whites. The bill would empower the government to draft Colored youths into a labor corps in which they could be subjected to "the performance of any kind of work." The bill would also automatically deny white status to anyone, even blue-eyed blondes, unable to prove that both parents were bona...
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