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Major General P.H. ("Tienie") Groenewald, retired chief of military intelligence, has only contempt for the President he calls "the biggest traitor we have ever had." For 35 years Groenewald was a faithful servant of the state, fighting apartheid's war against the revolutionaries of the African National Congress. Now, thanks to the concessionary policies of F.W. de Klerk, his enemy is the government itself, likely to be taken over soon by the leaders of the A.N.C. "For the first time, we really realize that we are in trouble," he said. "De Klerk and the A.N.C. have said, 'Unless you accept...
...member of the neofascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement will stand trial for the April assassination of Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party and a popular top official of the A.N.C. Two prominent right-wing Conservative Party officials will be tried as co-conspirators in the murder. Meanwhile, Groenewald and three other former generals have come out of retirement to form a coalition of right-wing groups, the Afrikaner Volksfront...
...Groenewald says the Volksfront's purpose is to back up demands in the current negotiations for an independent white state comprising about 16% of South Africa's territory. It would correspond roughly to the old Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State, which became part of the Union of South Africa in 1910. Neither De Klerk nor Mandela will accept such a state, since it would require the forced removal of millions of blacks or a return to apartheid-style discrimination against them...
Initially the Volksfront will employ mass-action tactics such as protest marches and labor strikes led by white unions. If the main parties persist in forming a transitional government, warned Groenewald, that could force whites to secede from South Africa. He refused to rule out leading an insurrection. It is an open question, he added, whether white-led government security forces would obey orders to suppress a white rebellion. That prospect worries many. Last week De Klerk acknowledged that he was only informed after the fact when the police cracked down on the militant Pan Africanist Congress and arrested...
...government's failure to increase the price of corn. It also provided a rousing springboard for the so-called Committee of Generals, who the next day formally launched the Afrikaner Volksfront, a bid to unite more than 20 political, cultural and worker groups. The aim, says General P.H. ("Tienie") Groenewald: to win an Afrikaner state containing roughly 16% of South African territory, if necessary by acts of civil disobedience or force of arms. Says Groenewald: "What we will contemplate . . . is to declare our independence and secede." Despite the threat, negotiators agreed that by June a date would...
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