Word: entrench
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Klerk objects to anyone questioning his commitment to change. Like many Afrikaners, he gets angry when the outside world criticizes South Africa for not doing enough rather than acknowledging what it has done. "Anyone who says that we are just looking for another way in which to entrench white domination has either not taken note of what has been said and what is happening or is willfully distorting the truth," he says. "On the one hand, they put up stumbling blocks that make it difficult for us to meet the expectations. On the other hand, they test us against expectations...