Word: oudtshoorn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boer War barnstorming seemed to be paying off for the Nationalist leaders. At last week's special election in Oudtshoorn, an Afrikaner stronghold 278 miles east of Cape Town, the National Party candidate defeated both his United Party opponent and a right-wing Afrikaner splinter candidate by an unusually wide margin. "An inspiring test of strength," beamed Prime Minister Vorster. Opposition leaders, though, insisted that Oudtshoorn-which is best known in South Africa for the ostriches it raises-was hardly an index of the national mood. "The Afrikaners here will get a shock," said one United Party politician, "when...