Word: platteland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outcast people." Before the polls opened on election morning, long rows of anxious voters stood impatiently to cast their ballots. At first the overwhelmingly anti-government vote from the big cities indicated that the republic might be defeated. But the tide turned in favor of Verwoerd when the platteland returns began arriving. By nightfall, the Nats had a 74,000 majority, giving them 52% of the votes-even though statistics showed many of Verwoerd's own Afrikaners had voted...
...picking up "dangerous" whites as well, including all the top leaders of Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton's little Liberal Party, except Paton himself, who commented, "I feel slightly disreputable. I must have slipped up somehow." Into the Cities. The Africans reacted like lightning crackling across the platteland sky. That afternoon a procession of 30,000 headed into Cape Town itself, chanting slogans and singing as a pink police helicopter, fluttering overhead like a nervous butterfly, radioed the throng's progress ahead to headquarters. Hastily, platoons of troops took position outside Parliament, where the legislators were debating...