Word: bophuthatswana
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...roadside in the black homeland of Bophuthatswana -- an ersatz nation created by the South African engineers of apartheid -- the two men in khaki lay bleeding on Friday beside their bullet-riddled Mercedes. A third, stretched out beside the car, was dead from gunshot wounds. "Please help us!" pleaded Fanie Uys, a member of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, who was hit in the leg. "Please!" cried Alwyn Walfaart, hands outstretched. "Can somebody just get us an ambulance?" Moments later, a black soldier stepped forward. Before a stunned group of news photographers and TV crews, he calmly executed...
This past weekend was quite an eventful one for South Africans as President Lucas Mangope of the Bophuthatswana homeland was forced to resign by the South African government. Mangope had declined to take part in April's national elections. As president, he stood to lose too much with the reintegration of Bop (Bophuthatswana's more colloquial name), becoming yet another insignificant ex-leader rather than remaining a big fish in a little pond. The South African government seems to have forgotten that five years ago they reinstated Mangope after a popular coup removed him from power...
Ironically, the South African Defense Force rolled into Bophuthatswana's capital, Mmabatho, this weekend amid welcoming cries of joy from the general populace where in previous years they were greeted with understandable resentment. Stranger things have happened. After all, who rallied in support of Mangope, taking over Mmabatho's airport as leverage for demands pressuring the South African government? Why, the Afrikaner Resistance Movement...
...soon as the threat of force became publicly known, the leaders of the Afrikaner Volksfront and Afrikaner Resistance Movement, two right-wing organizations of separatist whites, called for members from all over south Africa to go to Bophuthatswana and defend it as a bastion of the apartheid system. And they did. South African security forces managed to keep some of the hundreds of heavily armed civilians from entering the province, but many did reach its borders...
Imagine the sight that greeted the (Black) police officers on the calm outskirts of Bophuthatswana: scores of whites in khaki uniforms were driving towards them at top speed, brandishing automatic weapons. The inevitable massacre ensued. The police did not suspect that the whites had come, too late and without warning, to help them dispute what had become a moot point of history. The whites, still looking ominous though they had tactfully removed their swastika-like armbands, became (and were in any event) armed invaders against whom the country had to be defended. The extreme hatred between the two groups completed...