Word: volksfront
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...bombs that went off in Johannesburg, however, are proof that a few hate- filled racist groups are capable of carrying out sabotage and murder for the foreseeable future. The A.W.B.-aligned Volksfront is planning acts of & civil disobedience aimed at provoking confrontations with government security forces. Many South Africans may think it fitting if the A.N.C. chooses to use some of the same methods to crack down on the right that the apartheid government used against its freedom fighters for the past 46 years...
...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...
Setting the trend, the Afrikaner Volksfront has a similar, but more institutionalized, bond with Gatsha Buthelezi and the Inkatha Freedom Party in Natal. Their Freedom Alliance poses a serious threat to the prospect of free and fair elections, a threat no-one could have perceived even a year...
...soon as the threat of force became publicly known, the leaders of the Afrikaner Volksfront and Afrikaner Resistance Movement, two right-wing organizations of separatist whites, called for members from all over south Africa to go to Bophuthatswana and defend it as a bastion of the apartheid system. And they did. South African security forces managed to keep some of the hundreds of heavily armed civilians from entering the province, but many did reach its borders...