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...Battle of Ventersdorp," as Rudolph proudly calls it, was not his first run-in with the white authorities. In 1990 he broke into air-force headquarters in Pretoria and stole a large cache of weapons. With the police on his tail, he disappeared underground for six months and tried to organize commando cells. To spark a Boer revolt, he went on a bombing spree, targeting the offices of two senior De Klerk aides and Melrose House, the historic site of the 1902 Afrikaner surrender in the Anglo-Boer...
President F.W. de Klerk was pulling no punches. In a speech before his governing National Party in the conservative stronghold of Ventersdorp last week, he accused right-wing groups like the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (A.W.B.) of "looking for trouble." Even as he spoke, local A.W.B. extremists who oppose his dismantling of apartheid were doing just that. Hundreds, clad in khaki, marched on the hall where he was appearing and clashed with police in a melee that left at least three dead and 53 injured...
...minutes as authorities drove back the advancing A.W.B. members. A block away whites hurled rocks at a van carrying blacks. When the vehicle lost control and toppled into the crowd, killing one extremist, enraged whites opened fire and at least four blacks were injured. Ironically, De Klerk came to Ventersdorp to seek the support of rural white conservatives, who are rapidly deserting the National Party because of his reforms...
...Britain recently, is what the two rival nationalist groups want above all else. Last week they both wished that he had never been born 72 years ago. What had been dreamed up as a political masterpiece by their respective party chieftains in the sleepy little town of Ventersdorp turned into ridicule and recrimination...
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