Word: limpopo
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Those very words echoed in millions of minds across South Africa last week. In a series of astonishing episodes, beginning with all-race voting from the Limpopo to the Cape of Good Hope, the old South Africa of segregation and oppression dissolved itself and re-emerged as a tentatively hopeful, newly democratic nation. On Wednesday morning at 12:01, the old order formally ended as cheering crowds in the nine new provincial capitals hailed the lowering of apartheid's blue-white-and-orange flag and the raising of a banner with six colors symbolizing the people, their blood, their land...
...Johan de Villiers, who farms 5,000 acres along the Limpopo River: "We whites are always worried about our future and our children's future. We're always avaricious. We always want more and more. The African is different. If there is a drought, he moves on. He can adapt. If they can control their breeding and we can control our avarice, there is no reason we can't somehow get together. We do the planning, they do the work...
...current troubles are behind the almost palpable increase in white unease. In some rural areas, particularly in the Limpopo River valley near the Zimbabwe border, white farmers have formed home guard, or "commando," units, while the army sweeps the roads for mines at least twice a day. Many farmers in the area have built high security fences or walls around their homes, and all are connected by shortwave radio. One such farmer, Johan de Villiers, wears a Beretta pistol wherever he goes on his 2,000-acre spread. Two of his four sons are now farmers, and one of them...
Though whites in Salisbury do not like to admit it, Rhodesia is already at war along its entire 800-mile border with Mozambique, from the Zambezi River in the north to the Limpopo in the south. Local villages have been terrorized by black guerrillas, buildings burned, cars ambushed on lonely roads in broad daylight, buses blown up by mines. Army helicopters hunt guerrillas in scrubland and forested hill country along the frontier, and patrols in brown and green camouflage probe cautiously through the brush, automatic weapons at the ready. To protect themselves, white farmers have installed pushbutton alarm systems that...
...detente efforts with black Africa, the Pretoria government is not about to send troops into Rhodesia. "If it comes to that," a South African general recently told TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs, "there will certainly be some volunteers to go and fight, but we won't cross the Limpopo River [the South African-Rhodesian border...