Word: afrikaanse
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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De Villiers is a correspondent for the Johannesburg Sunday Times, the most widely circulated paper in South Africa. Although more whites speak Afrikaans than English, English-language newspapers outnumber their Afrikaans counterparts. The Pretoria-educated de Villiers notes that the "opposition press" has long spoken out against the more heinous...
Acts of sabotage have also been on the rise, starting with raids on isolated police stations last year and culminating in this month's nighttime bombings of three refineries hi the country's strategic SASOL petroleum complex, causing $7.5 million in damage. The sense of bitterness has palpably...
The birth of Mugabe's Zimbabwe has stimulated a new debate in neighboring South Africa, the continent's last bastion of white minority rule. South African leaders now face mounting pressure both from within and without to dismantle apartheid and give the country's 19 million blacks...