Word: boer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clash of black v. white is not the only thing that divides South Africa. The division between English and Boer is still bitter...
Last week, secure in the knowledge that Afrikaners outnumber South Africa's English-speaking citizens, the Nats rammed through legislation for a nationwide referendum on the question. But Parliament rang with the hot passions of the Boer War. Nationalist newspapers exhorted Afrikaners to contribute toward a $420,000 fund to carry on the republic campaign. But in Natal, the stronghold of the English-speaking population, thousands of antirepublicans flocked to Durban's electoral offices to check their registrations for the vote expected in October...
...violence. Last year, after his Dutch wife left him for another man. he arrived at Amsterdam's airport with a gun in his pocket and proclaimed his intention of killing her. Chief worry: that the shooting of the Afrikaners' leader by an Engelsman would deepen the long Boer hostility toward the English-speaking whites...
...that also kept thousands of Africans from their jobs in a city already partially paralyzed by lack of labor. In the countryside the entire citizens' defense force of 23,000 civilian reservists was alerted and 40% of its units put on active duty. Truckloads of skietkommandos, mostly young Boer farmers recruited from rifle clubs, sped through the Orange Free State to take up positions in strategic areas...
...last December, stubby, handsome Frank Erasmus issued banning orders on eight people, an alltime record. And when last week the government decided to outlaw the only two African organizations of any substance, it was stiff, humorless Erasmus who stood in Parliament to introduce the legislation. The son of a Boer farmer, Erasmus was trained for the law, but plunged into Afrikaner politics at 30, attaching himself to a then obscure leader named Daniel...