Word: klerk
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...international front, however, De Klerk has had unqualified success. On his numerous state visits, de Klerk has ended South Africa's many years of diplomatic isolation. He has convinced western leaders of the irreversibility of the reform process in which the country is currently involved...
Because the population of Potchefstroom, which also happens to be de Klerk's birthplace, includes a wide range of income groups, from Afrikaans-speaking farmers to English-speaking professionals, the by-election was seen as a representative test of white feeling on National Party policy...
...FACE OF this electoral snub, De Klerk called this referendum on the country's future...
...Klerk gambled that, rather than vote `no' to further reform, white South Africans would see that the alternatives facing them were quite bleak. He wanted to use the referendum as a vote of confidence in his government...
There was a lot at stake: in the weeks before the referendum, De Klerk and Andries Treurnicht, leader of the Conservative Party, resorted to hands-on campaign tactics, meeting voters face-to-face for the first time, in a country where politicians have traditionally remained aloof of the electorate...