Word: viljoen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...squadron of South African Impala jets thundered through the skies over the new Independence Stadium in Thohoyandou, as tribal dancers raised clouds of red dust with their rhythmic exhortations to ancestral spirits. At the stroke of midnight, South Africa's top-hatted President Marais Viljoen strode down a red carpet to announce a "great historic event, the birth of a new state." At his side stood Chief Patrick Mphephu, 54, a small, diffident man with a fifth-grade education, who was soon to become the Executive President of the Republic of Venda, a Delaware-sized region tucked...
...Chris Viljoen Stellenbosch, South Africa...
...Afrikaner churches. Roughly half of the country's white ministers, school officials and university rectors are Broederbond members. So are virtually all Cabinet members and at least 75% of National Party members of parliament. The Broederbond's chairman since 1974 has been Gerrit Viljoen, rector of the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg...
...United Party described the wide gap between black and white wages as "a source of shame." The tiny Progressive Party's only M.P., Mrs. Helen Suzman, demanded: "How much does it take to agitate a black man who has to live on $14 a week?" Labor Minister Marais Viljoen promised that the government would introduce legislation to "encourage" white employers to make greater use of "works committees" to discuss problems with black employees. In a surprisingly conciliatory statement, Prime Minister John Vorster strongly implied that employers had better cooperate. "They should not view their workers merely as units working...