Word: pogrund
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...Pogrund foresees only one indefinite scenario for his country: increased polarization and "the end of all hopes of reconciliation. Thing will get worse until whites and blacks are at each others' throats, and then, well...
...There are really only two sides now in South Africa," Pogrund says, "the White Afrikaaner Nationalist regime and the black nationalist movement. Everyone else is in the middle--the Coloureds, the Indians, the anti-apartheid whites--and they have to run to one camp or the other and hope they get protection. South African liberals are in despair--there is no place for them any more...
With greater strife will come increased government repression, Pogrund predicts--much worse than that which has already jailed, severely restricted or exiled members of the two major nationalist groups, the Black Peoples Congress and the South African Students Organization...
Vorster's regime has already routed a leftist newspaper. And Pogrund expects that greater restraints will be placed on The Mail. But he has no second thoughts about his future. "South Africa is my homeland, too," he says. "This is what I've devoted my entire adult life...
...does begin to imprison the editors of The Mail? "Any one of we top three can step in and take over at the drop of a hat or as a result of one phone call; that's what we've been brought up through the ranks and trained for," Pogrund says...