Word: boerehaat
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Speaking to a gathering of Afrikaners, Prime Minister John Vorster took the Boerehaat (Boer hate) campaign a step further. "Because of the things that threaten us," he cried, "we need a militant youth." Then he quoted a line from an old Boer war song, "I've always been afraid the English soldiers would catch me," adding: "If there's any catching to be done, we will do it, and the time has now come...
...outbreak of white tribalism seemed especially curious because South Africa's political mood has mellowed in recent years. Opposition leaders suspected that the renewal of Boerehaat could be traced to the troubles of the Afrikaner-dominated National Party, which lost eight seats in the 1970 election and faces continuing tension between its moderate verligte (enlightened) and archconservative verkrampte (narrow-minded) wings...
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