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...first run-in with the white authorities. In 1990 he broke into air-force headquarters in Pretoria and stole a large cache of weapons. With the police on his tail, he disappeared underground for six months and tried to organize commando cells. To spark a Boer revolt, he went on a bombing spree, targeting the offices of two senior De Klerk aides and Melrose House, the historic site of the 1902 Afrikaner surrender in the Anglo-Boer...
...coincidence that Rudolph's exploits parallel those of his defiant forebears. Piet was named for a relative who commanded the cannons in the 1838 battle of Blood River, when the Boers defeated the Zulus and won control of considerable territory. As a boy, Rudolph spent hours listening to tales told by an old soldier who had been blinded by wounds received in the turn-of-the- century Anglo-Boer conflict...
After several years in the security branch, Rudolph left the police in 1967 to pursue political office. As a candidate for the ultra-right Reconstituted National Party, he lost four parliamentary elections. "It was impossible to get the support of South Africa for the Boer republic," he says. "The only way was an unconstitutional struggle...
...speculates, before South Africa descends into civil war. If De Klerk hands over power to the A.N.C., he predicts, the volk will fight. If the pro- apartheid Conservative Party defeats De Klerk in his reform referendum, then it will be the blacks who rise up. Either way, the Boers stand to lose whatever powers and privileges they enjoyed during the apartheid years. "Time has run out in our land," Rudolph says. "Now this cannot be resolved without a fight." With that, he slips out the back exit, off to another meeting to plan the African-Boer...
...Boer served for the entire match and had the Harvard duo at 7-6, but the Crimson broke his serve and pulled out the match in a one sided tiebreaker...