Word: tertius
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South Africans are grimly pursuing their own debate about the future, fully confident that their decisions will be the determining ones. As they see it, the West has become irrational about sanctions and there is little point any longer in trying to bring reason to bear. The issue, says Tertius Myburgh, editor of the Johannesburg Sunday Times, has become "cost-free election politics" in the U.S. and "Margaret Thatcher's problem, not ours" in Britain. Although it generates political heat in Washington and London, the argument is, for white South Africans, no more than the sound of distant shouting...
...Tertius Chandler...
...sports and recognizing some black trade unions. But even these tentative reforms have angered many whites and set off a spasm of soul searching over the future course of the country that provides so much chromium, manganese, platinum and vanadium, which are so valuable to the West. Says Journalist Tertius Myburgh: "It is no longer a question of whether Afrikanerdom will split politically. It has already split...
Reaction to Hattingh's genealogical bombshell ranged from outraged denials to bemusement. Fumed Louis Stofberg, general secretary of the right-wing Herstigte Nasionale Party: "I'd like to see the bastard who can find a drop of colored blood in my family!" Albert Tertius Myburgh, Afrikaner editor of the national Sunday Times, took a positive view, describing the "swelling of African pride" he felt at the racial revelation...