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<text id=93TT1684>
<title>
May 17, 1993: Afrikaners, Unite!
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
May 17, 1993 Anguish over Bosnia
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK, Page 17
WORLD
Afrikaners, Unite!
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<p>South African right-wingers demand an independent white
homeland
</p>
<p> The 10,000 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.
</p>
<p> The gathering was called to protest black attacks on white
farmers and the government's failure to increase the price of
corn. It also provided a rousing springboard for the so-called
Committee of Generals, who the next day formally launched the
Afrikaner Volksfront, a bid to unite more than 20 political,
cultural and worker groups. The aim, says General P.H.
("Tienie") Groenewald: to win an Afrikaner state containing
roughly 16% of South African territory, if necessary by acts of
civil disobedience or force of arms. Says Groenewald: "What we
will contemplate...is to declare our independence and
secede." Despite the threat, negotiators agreed that by June a
date would be set for the first free elections, probably to take
place in April 1994.
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