Word: sjambok
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...than ever. A verligte (enlightened) faction, which forms a significant part of Botha's ruling National Party, is aware that some form of political accommodation with blacks must come eventually. A verkrampte (literally "cramped," or hard-line) breakaway group is determined to keep things as they are, if by sjambok and shotgun. At the same time, the black majority is torn between appeals by nationalists, who believe that nothing less than force will ever wrest power from the whites, and by moderates, who preach reform and peaceful evolution toward power sharing by all races...