South Africa: White Man's Bastion

As the black "winds of change" sweep across Africa, many white men have bent to them as gracefully as possible. The exceptions have been the Afrikaners of South Africa, the Portuguese in their colonies of Angola and Mozambique, and the white supremacists of the Central African Federation. By an accident of geography, the territories they control span the southern tip of the continent.

Noting this happenstance, geopoliticians in all three areas have long talked of forming a three-way pact to establish a white man's bastion against the black tide. Last week the...

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