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...regard the future with any pessimism. I have been having discussions with the full general staff of the South African Defense Force. I have had discussions with all the police generals who are responsible for policy. Three days ago I met ((right-wing leader)) General Constand Viljoen and had very fruitful discussions with him. We made a plan as to how to deal with the demands of the Afrikaners. ((Viljoen, whose party won 2% of the vote, is seeking an Afrikaner state.)) The entry of Buthelezi into the elections and now the fact that he is going to serve...
...election drove a wedge between Terreblanche and his political ally, Afrikaner Volksfront leader Ferdinand Hartzenberg, and the supporters of former South African Defense Force chief Constand Viljoen. All three men want an Afrikaner state, or volkstaat, but Terreblanche and Hartzenberg believe it can be achieved only by the gun. Viljoen thinks he can persuade the government to grant Afrikaners their own piece of the country. In March he formed the Freedom Front Party and registered to participate in the elections. If he wins support, as expected, from more than half the estimated 1 million conservative white voters, it will prove...
...Viljoen was wooed away from the hard-liners with a promise from the African National Congress that a volkstaat council would be set up in the new government to explore the possibility of an Afrikaner homeland. The A.N.C. has largely defused the right-wing threat, placating many frightened whites by accepting a mandatory government of national unity for five years and guaranteeing jobs and pensions for more than 200,000 civil servants, policemen and soldiers...
...homeland until next month's elections. Mangope's troubles also led to the collapse of the so-called Freedom Alliance, an odd coupling of right-wing black and white parties boycotting the elections in an attempt to preserve some of the privileges they had accrued under apartheid. General Constand Viljoen, leader of the Afrikaner Volksfront, just beat the Friday- night deadline to register a new white separatist party called the Freedom Front. Though Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party, missed the deadline, he indicated he may not work to disrupt the balloting, as many have feared...
...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...