Word: myburgh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Phillip Myburgh, a law student who drafted a denunciation of all remaining apartheid laws that 800 legal scholars approved last month, thinks this is already happening. "What is going on here," he says, "is the incubation of Afrikanerdom's future thought." If he is right, the government's think tank could one day be better known as the place that played a decisive role in the transformation of Afrikanerdom...
...Africans are grimly pursuing their own debate about the future, fully confident that their decisions will be the determining ones. As they see it, the West has become irrational about sanctions and there is little point any longer in trying to bring reason to bear. The issue, says Tertius Myburgh, editor of the Johannesburg Sunday Times, has become "cost-free election politics" in the U.S. and "Margaret Thatcher's problem, not ours" in Britain. Although it generates political heat in Washington and London, the argument is, for white South Africans, no more than the sound of distant shouting...
...citing the U.S. invasion of Grenada last October (a disingenuous comparison, if only because South Africa's control of Namibia is in direct defiance of a U.N. ruling). Then it resolved to impose a Grenadian-style ban on press coverage of the assault. As a result, said Philip Myburgh, spokesman for the opposition Progressive Federal Party, the operation was attended by "an atmosphere of secrecy and suspicion...
...first test "fantastic." It means, he said, that Botha "has no mandate to go ahead with his reform policy." Indeed, the Conservatives would have won handily if the right-wing vote had not been split between their candidates, Willem Guy, 43, who drew 39.3% of the vote, and Jack Myburgh, 37, of the Herstigte Nasionale Party, who won 18%. So far, the Conservatives have remained aloof of the H.N.P., which stands unabashedly for white supremacy and has stridently attacked the Botha plan. But last week H.N.P. Leader Jaap Marais said he was prepared to consider joining the Conservatives...
...recognizing some black trade unions. But even these tentative reforms have angered many whites and set off a spasm of soul searching over the future course of the country that provides so much chromium, manganese, platinum and vanadium, which are so valuable to the West. Says Journalist Tertius Myburgh: "It is no longer a question of whether Afrikanerdom will split politically. It has already split...