Word: laager
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor Mendelsohn also agrees that disinvestment will further promote the Afrikaaner "laager mentality" but dismisses this point as unimportant. I believe he severely underestimates the stubborness that this involves, as evidenced by the state President P.W. Botha's statement to business leaders last week that he would not increase the pace of reform as it would look as if he was giving in to international pressures. The Afrikaaner desire to forcefully assert independence intensifies opposition to local reform...
Black guerrillas step up their attacks inside the laager...
...morning of the sentencing. A bomb blast ripped up a section of rail line outside the coastal city of East London-one more sign that the ANC, which was outlawed in 1960, is trying harder than ever to induce a climate of terror among whites in the South African laager. From neighboring Zimbabwe, ANC Acting President Oliver Tambo, 63, served notice that such violence will increase. Said he: "South Africa is a highly developed industrialized state. A few determined guerrillas can do a lot of damage-and we have more than just a handful of people in the country...