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Pretoria, 4 p.m. Piet Rudolph, 54, a grim, potbellied former policeman wearing a khaki uniform with swastika-like emblems, slips into an empty basement restaurant. Run by a trusted friend, it is one of the places where he can hide if the police are looking for him. He prefers to stay in the shadows with the lights off as he settles into a corner table...
Terre Blanche, a former policeman, complained that his 10-year-old daughter had to watch him being arrested. Another of the right-wing movement's leaders, Piet Rudolph, seemed unaware of the irony when he said, "This is what one should expect in a police state...
Another subject he has written about extensively will be taught in a spring course, Fine Arts 176x, "Piet Mondrian and De Stijl." The class will examine the early 20th century movement and collaborative effort among a group of Dutch artists and architects...
Bois is a prolific scholar. He has written several books, many articles and numerous reviews of exhibitions and printed works. His topics have varied from Piet Mondrian to El Lissitzky, and from the theory of Dutch architecture to Cubism...
Actually, even Afrikaner politicians have been proclaiming for some time that change is coming. It was in 1979 that Piet Koornhof, then Minister of Cooperation and Development, rather boldly announced to an audience in Washington, "Apartheid as you came to know it is dead." And none other than the crusty, old (now 71) Botha declared that the "aspirations of urban blacks and the fulfillment of them must form part of the strategy for the protection of everyone in South Africa...