ANDRIES TREURNICHT: Dressing Apartheid in Nationalistic Clothes

Rejecting negotiations with Nelson Mandela, ANDRIES TREURNICHT, leader of South Africa's Conservative Party, warns of a white revolt

Q. Many people applaud President F.W. de Klerk for making courageous reforms, but you as a fellow Afrikaner seem to regard him as a traitor.

A. We are not against reform in principle, but the type of reform by Mr. De Klerk is a denial of the existence of a separate people who are entitled to self-determination. He started on the road of a unitary state, of participation by all individuals in the government of the country. For us, that means 30 million black people, with their own cultural, ethnic and racial background, will have an all-out majority against the rest...

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