Word: transvaal
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Classes are in session from the northern Transvaal to Cape Province. Khayelitsha, a sandy, windswept tract along the South Atlantic coast, is the largest black township in the Cape Town area. Its small A.N.C. campaign office -- one of 94 around the country -- is a whitewashed single-story building in a neighborhood where thieves and vandals have driven out most residents and shopkeepers. Behind barred windows, regional secretary Richard Dyantyi, 24, a slim former marketing student, directs the A.N.C.'s organizational work. Though he has only one telephone, one fax and two reluctant copying machines, he has lots of helpers. Their...
Groenewald says the Volksfront's purpose is to back up demands in the current negotiations for an independent white state comprising about 16% of South Africa's territory. It would correspond roughly to the old Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State, which became part of the Union of South Africa in 1910. Neither De Klerk nor Mandela will accept such a state, since it would require the forced removal of millions of blacks or a return to apartheid-style discrimination against them...
...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...
Together with leader Eugene TerreBlanche, Rudolph founded the A.W.B. in 1973. The most important of its objectives, he maintains, is the re- establishment of an Afrikaner nation in the Transvaal and Orange Free State provinces. Either large townships like Soweto would be partitioned out of the white state, or else blacks would simply have to accept white domination without complaint...
...recipe for white "annihilation." The neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement says it will not negotiate with "terrorists and communists." Both warn they will fight rather than accept a black government. Right-wing whites were suspected of setting off bombs last week in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal; there were no injuries...