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...where the country is heading, whether Armageddon will ever come. Many are convinced that new approaches must be tried, as demonstrated by public-opinion surveys suggesting that large numbers of whites would consider power sharing, and fully expect to live some day in an integrated society. Says Slabbert, the 45-year-old Afrikaner liberal who heads the Progressive Federal Party: "I think Afrikaners are now more willing to explore possibilities of coexistence, and that is definitely a new development." Alan Paton, the author of Cry, the Beloved Country and onetime leader of the now defunct Liberal Party, says, "The tide...
...knows the majority of Afrikaners want him to succeed, to restore the country to peace and prosperity and end its pariah status. "Afrikaners have become Africans," says Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, former leader of the liberal opposition in Parliament. "They cannot continue standing apart. De Klerk has said, Forget it. We tried that and it didn't work...
...late '70s, liberal white advocates of equal rights for blacks had been overwhelmingly English speaking, led by the likes of Alan Paton, Helen Suzman and Nadine Gordimer. Today younger Afrikaners are taking the lead among whites in the campaign for democracy and racial reconciliation, notably Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, a brilliant academic and former rugby star; Max du Preez, editor of the crusading paper Vrye Weekblad; and Tian van der Merwe, campaigning to close the gap between white parliamentarians and the A.N.C...
...South Africa, agrees: "If faced with the ultimate choice between sharing and going under, the Masada complex need not prevail. There is still a chance -- small and diminishing rapidly -- of entering into the kind of dialectic with the present which may open up the future." Frederik van Zyl Slabbert was leader of the official opposition, the Progressive Federal Party, until he resigned in disgust last year, so his criticisms are hardly new. But he is also a former professor of sociology and thus well tuned to the new mood of intellectual disaffection. He blames Botha for much of the discontent...
...onetime farmers who still proudly celebrate the anniversary of the Great Trek, Slabbert says, "Afrikaners are now bourgeois, upper middle class, the Babbitts of Bloemfontein. They are beginning to feel ashamed of their racism. The tribal bonds are weakening. Afrikaner hegemony and solidarity are crumbling...