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...kind of banter that only the most verkrampte, or hard-line, Afrikaner would find amusing. But when Andries Treurnicht and Jaap Marais, the leaders of two of South Africa's right-wing political parties, shared a platform in Pretoria earlier this year to protest the government's repeal of laws banning interracial sex and marriage, their racist exchanges produced waves of laughter from the conservative audience...
...Treurnicht: Ma-in-law could work in the kitchen while Pa-in-law could help out in the garden...
...State President P.W. Botha's ruling National Party, the Treurnicht-Marais challenge is no laughing matter, as last week's cautious performance at Durban proved. While Botha has pressed his agenda of modest reform, he has been forced to watch the right wing carefully. A senior National Party official estimated this month that of South Africa's 4.9 million whites (60% of whom are Afrikaners), about 20% support ultraconservative groups that insist on retaining total apartheid. If the President continues on his path of reform, the official predicted, the extreme right might increase its strength by 6% to 8%. Other...
...forefront of the right-wing thrust stands the Conservative Party, headed by Treurnicht, 64, a former National Party member and Cabinet minister who broke with Botha in 1982 over the issue of limited power sharing with nonwhites. When the President acted on his proposal for a tricameral Parliament, Treurnicht bolted the National Party, along with 16 other M.P.s, and formed his own party. Treurnicht, who is derided as "Dr. No" by his foes, aims his no-compromise rhetoric mainly at lower-class whites...
While the National Party is not likely to lose its comfortable parliamentary majority any time soon, the right wing severely circumscribes Botha's freedom of movement toward change. Addressing himself to the President, Treurnicht last week told a provincial congress of the Conservative Party, "With all respect, I warn you. You will be crushed between black-radical demands and the resistance of whites. You are awakening the tiger in the whites...