Word: ultraright
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Pressure on De Klerk is likely to remain strong. Supporters regard him as a bold innovator of the stripe of Mikhail Gorbachev, but white detractors say De Klerk is unleashing forces he cannot control. Ultraright-wing militants are already gearing for battle. Last week the Conservative Party, made up of right-wingers who eight years ago broke away from the ruling National Party because they considered it too conciliatory, brought treason charges against Mandela and two other antiapartheid leaders and demanded that they be investigated...
...moves seem aimed at wooing white moderates to the ruling National Party, which has steadily lost voters to the ultraright Conservative Party. Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu dismissed Botha's proposals as "slight adjustments to the evil system" of apartheid...
Even the shadowy Broederbond, whose whole purpose is to work for Afrikaner power, is beginning to make strange noises. First it forced out about 1,000 members who had split with the Nationalists to form the ultraright Herstigte (Reconstituted) National Party. Then, last year, it began circulating among its members a "working document" that canvassed opinion on the idea of a multiracial government. "The rights of all groups should be advanced and fulfilled," it said. Now Broederbond Chairman Jan Pieter de Lange is speaking openly of a "tremendous need for more contact ((between races)) to build up mutual understanding...
...endangering white South Africans, entertains no hope of taking over the government. He and his strategists would like to win enough seats to replace the moderate Progressive Federal Party as the official opposition. His efforts will be strengthened if he is able to form a united front with the ultraright Herstigte National Party, which now has only one seat in Parliament but hopes for more...
...days without trial, will reinforce the apartheid system and virtually reinstitute the harsh state of emergency that was lifted on March 7. In a rare show of defiance, the Indian and mixed-race houses of the tricameral Parliament are blocking the bills. Meanwhile, white members of the ultraright Afrikaner Resistance Movement again clashed with police as they continued their campaign of disrupting meetings of the ruling National Party. Earlier last month, white police in the northern Transvaal town of Pietersburg were forced to fire tear gas at the movement's supporters when they refused to allow Foreign Minister Roelof...