Word: transvaal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thousand Hills in Natal province, where at least 39 die in clashes among feuding Zulus. In the town of Welkom in the Orange Free State, a black mob surrounds a minibus, hacks to death the six black occupants and sets fire to the vehicle. In the southern Transvaal township of Sebokeng, police open fire on a crowd of 50,000 people protesting high rents, killing perhaps eleven. In Katlehong, east of Johannesburg, war erupts among black taxi drivers, leaving at least 25 dead and scores injured...
...almost everyone calls him, is a fourth-generation Afrikaner nationalist. A descendant of the Calvinistic Voortrekkers, who valued independence more than enlightenment, he was raised in the northern Transvaal, the heart of the most conservative area of South Africa. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were National Party politicians, and his uncle J.G. Strydom was a Prime Minister. He was twelve years old in 1948, when his father became a Member of Parliament and the National Party rose to power on the platform of Grand Apartheid. While he modeled himself on his stern and unyielding father, his brother Willem...
...Klerk duly went to law school, built a prosperous practice in the Transvaal and was ready for politics in 1972 when he was tapped by the Afrikaner elite to stand for Parliament. He served as a solid but undistinguished member of a host of committees, later becoming a dutiful Cabinet minister holding such portfolios as sports and home affairs. His closest brush with the wretchedness of apartheid came when he was Education Minister during the 1976 Soweto riots protesting compulsory Afrikaans instruction in the schools. He stood resolutely behind the principle of separate but equal -- in practice unequal -- education...
...Klerk counts himself an optimist. Last week he went home to the Transvaal to see his newborn first grandson, and expressed his hope for the future. "I think he's going to be part of a country on its way to greatness," said the State President. A country on its way to something, yes, but no one knows precisely what. That newborn baby is among the first generation of Afrikaners whose future is not assured. While the past in South Africa appears to be dying, the future is yet to be born...