Word: boer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Afrikaners who do not share De Klerk's vision of a multiracial society living in harmony, the idea of an all-white ministate is gaining in appeal. The Orange Workers published a detailed map proposing a territory roughly covering the former Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State. Earlier, Carel Boshoff, Verwoerd's brother-in-law, proposed setting up a homeland called Orandee in the desolate northern Cape Province...
...industrial one, sucking country folk into the city and changing their lives." By-products of the mines included pass laws; "native" compounds that separated workers from their families; escalating categories of black, colored and European; ruthless cartels; and the world's first concentration camps, built by Britain during the Boer...
...January Sun. Stengel, a TIME contributor, has the eye of a Leica and the sensitivity of a light meter. He focuses on a single day in the Transvaal town of Brits, where three men spend their separate, unequal lives. Ronald de la Rey, a white veterinarian, parrots the Boer tradition: "I think the idea of apartheid makes you more aware of the differences between people than the similarities. It's in our subconscious. But we like it that way. Everyone keeps their own identity...