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Robert van Tonder, 54, is a 14th generation Afrikaner whose Danish ancestors arrived in the New Cape colony in 1700. He lives with his second wife and his six children in a rambling, thatched-roof farmhouse on a 100-acre homestead 20 miles west of Johannesburg. It is a peaceful countryside of rolling brown hills, white fences and grazing cattle. In Van Tonder's home, his small study is crammed with books in Afrikaans on the Great Trek and the Boer War. In the Afrikaner tradition, extra places are always set at meal times for neighbors who may unexpectedly...
...Homestead Act of 1862 sent young men rushing westward by the thousands to stake their claim to 160 acres of public land, free of charge. More than a century later, the range has become the home of agribusiness conglomerates and huge farms of thousands of acres; the lone homesteader who tilled his quarter section (onefourth of a square mile, which totals 640 acres) has gone the way of the American buffalo...
...court decision is forcing Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus to try to bring back the old homesteader. In August, Andrus announced that 1 million acres of federally irrigated farm land in 18 Western states would be redistributed in a national lottery on the homestead principle of 160 acres for a farmer and each member of his family. The Andrus proposal caused outrage throughout the West. Particularly shaken up were the owners of the enormous "factories of the fields" in areas like California's Imperial Valley, one of the largest food baskets...
Snapping photos of the folks in the old homestead for a family album is harmless enough, unless your names happen to be Annette and Jeff Carter and the homestead is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The President's son and daughter-in-law had big plans for marketing their pictures in a book, and hoped for a foreword by Jimmy. They even had a prospectus put together for publishers and included some sample snaps: Amy on Daddy's knee, Miss Lillian out fishing, Rosalynn on the tennis court, Jimmy in a hospital gown after the birth of a grandchild. Then...
...right-wing Rhodesian Action Party. Among the diehard Afrikaner ranchers of Nuanetsi, near Belingwe, the gloom is virtually impenetrable. Last week most farmers there cast their ballots by mail; nowadays they rarely venture far from their fortified homes. Reason: during one terrifying two-week period in July, a different homestead was attacked every day. The Belingwe Tribal Trust Land has become what one Swiss missionary calls "occupied territory"; the guerrillas are there, the government knows it, but the army cannot do much about it. The guerrillas attack anything connected with government, however beneficial to the populace or nonpolitical the target...