Word: pietersburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mixed-race houses of the tricameral Parliament are blocking the bills. Meanwhile, white members of the ultraright Afrikaner Resistance Movement again clashed with police as they continued their campaign of disrupting meetings of the ruling National Party. Earlier last month, white police in the northern Transvaal town of Pietersburg were forced to fire tear gas at the movement's supporters when they refused to allow Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha to address a rally. Against this troubled backdrop, Botha held an hour-long interview in his Cape Town office with TIME Executive Editor Edward L. Jamieson and Johannesburg Correspondent Peter...
...when 16 members of Parliament defected from the National Party. Led by Dr. Andries Treurnicht, 61, an ordained minister, the Conservatives have attacked Botha's plan as being too radical and accused him of leading South Africa toward "total integration." As Treurnicht said to his supporters at a Pietersburg rally, "The Prime Minister's stance has aroused the tiger in many Afrikaners, and the heartbeat of the nation tells me we are on the right road...
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