Word: potchefstroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...KHAKI-CLAD AFRIKANER FARMERS WERE seething. Demonstrating under a hot Transvaal sun in Potchefstroom last week, they shouted down a junior minister in President F.W. de Klerk's Cabinet when he rose to address them. Then they gave a standing ovation to retired South African Defense Force chief Constand Viljoen, who demanded a halt to De Klerk's negotiations with the African National Congress and other parties...
However, success in the outside world did not translate into popularity at home with white South Africans. The point was painfully brought home in the recent parliamentary by-election in Potchefstroom, in which the National Party lost a previously safe seat to the Conservative Party...
Because the population of Potchefstroom, which also happens to be de Klerk's birthplace, includes a wide range of income groups, from Afrikaans-speaking farmers to English-speaking professionals, the by-election was seen as a representative test of white feeling on National Party policy...