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They have Afrikaner support.
Afrikaner = a South African whose first language is Afrikaans -- typically descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers

His own father had sworn that he would disinherit any child of his who married an Afrikaner, but times had changed. (source)

The Afrikaners seemed to have all the time in the world.† (source) Mina Baites, The Silver Music Box, 2017

When these townships were established, Afrikaners, or whites of Dutch ancestry, made up 9 percent of the population.† (source) Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore, 2010

In the Afrikaner's worldview, apartheid and the church went hand in hand.† (source)

They may deal with an Afrikaner but the actual mining is done by what I'm sure Mr. Van Cuter would call 'bleks.'† (source) John Ringo, Live Free or Die, 2010

In spite of devastating and repeated acts of massacre, assassination and extirpation, the huge acts of faith which have marked the new relations between Palestinians and Israelis, Africans and Afrikaners, and the way in which walls have come down in Europe and iron curtains have opened, all this inspires a hope that new possibility can still open up in Ireland as well.† (source) Seamus Heaney, Crediting Poetry, 1995

The small community of Afrikaners had their own lives, and the Britishers ignored them.† (source)

But the way the Afrikaners treat the blacks is almost as inhuman and cruel as what Hitler did to us.† (source) Mina Baites, The Silver Music Box, 2017

While she was in prison Winnie became friendly with two teenaged Afrikaner wardresses.† (source)

For the first time in South African history, an exclusively Afrikaner party led the government.† (source)

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Underneath this Afrikaner hero is a quotation from one of his speeches.† (source)

He was a white Afrikaner, a creature of the South African system and mind-set.† (source)

Stern and God-fearing, the Afrikaner takes his religion seriously.† (source)

The Conservative Party described the resolutions as hostile to Afrikaner interests.† (source)

They were all sophisticated Afrikaners, and far more open-minded than nearly all of their brethren.† (source)

"Poor whites" were Afrikaners, never British.† (source)

Both visits were authorized by the new minister of justice, Kobie Coetsee, who appeared to be a new sort of Afrikaner leader.† (source)

In the distorted cosmology of the Afrikaner, the Nationalist victory was like the Israelites' journey to the Promised Land.† (source)

One night, to my astonishment, I observed Colonel Minnaar, who was the head of prison, and a well-known Afrikaner advocate come to fetch him.† (source)

The Nationalists' victory was the beginning of the end of the domination of the Afrikaner by the Englishman.† (source)

He made them for precisely the opposite reason: to ensure power for the Afrikaner in a new dispensation.† (source)

The prison service provided me with a cook, Warrant Officer Swart, a tall, quiet Afrikaner who had once been a warder on Robben Island.† (source)

His great-grandfather had been a chief in the Orange Free State, and had greeted the Afrikaner voortrekkers of the nineteenth century with open arms and gifts of land, and then been betrayed.† (source)

Reverend Andre Scheffler was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Africa, a sister church of the Dutch Reformed Church, the faith of nearly all the Afrikaner people.† (source)

He seemed to me to be the very model of the old-fashioned, stiff-necked, stubborn Afrikaner who did not so much discuss matters with black leaders as dictate to them.† (source)

I mentioned that I had recently read an article in an Afrikaans magazine about the 1914 Afrikaner Rebellion, and I mentioned how they had occupied towns in the Free State.† (source)

As an Afrikaner whose conscience forced him to reject his own heritage and be ostracized by his own people, he showed a level of courage and sacrifice that was in a class by itself.† (source)

AT THE FORT I was being supervised by Colonel Minnaar, a courtly Afrikaner considered something of a liberal by his more verkrampte (hard-line) colleagues.† (source)

February 12, 1994, was the deadline for registration of all parties, and on that day, Inkatha, the Conservative Party, and the Afrikaner Volksfront failed to sign.† (source)

As a result, they attracted a great deal of attention and it was soon widely known that two Afrikaner wardresses from the Fort had visited Winnieand me.† (source)

Upon my return to Johannesburg I learned that the police had arrested a member of the militant right-wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), a Polish immigrant to South Africa who had been captured after a courageous Afrikaner woman had phoned the police with the killer's license plate number.† (source)

During the trial, I advised Bram not to take this route, stressing that he served the struggle best in the courtroom, where people could see this Afrikaner son of a judge president fighting for the rights of the powerless.† (source)

I raised the question of our release and reminded him of the case of the 1914 Afrikaner rebels, who had resorted to violence though they were represented in Parliament, could hold meetings, and could even vote.† (source)

A group called the Afrikaner Volksfront, led by General Constand Viljoen, a former chief of the South African Defense Force, was formed to unite conservative white organizations around the idea of a volkstaat, a white homeland.† (source)

A white woman, of Afrikaner origin, risked her life so that we may know, and bring to justice this assassin…… Now is the time for all South Africans to stand together against those who, from any quarter, wish to destroy what Chris Hani gave his life for—the freedom of all of us.† (source)

The Nationalists, led by Dr. Daniel Malan, a former minister of the Dutch Reform Church and a newspaper editor, were a party animated by bitterness—bitterness toward the English, who had treated them as inferiors for decades, and bitterness toward the African, who the Nationalists believed was threatening the prosperity and purity of Afrikaner culture.† (source)

Hanson said the judge would do well to recall that his own people, the Afrikaners, had struggled violently for their freedom.† (source)

Like most Afrikaners, they thought that because many of the Communists in the ANC were white or Indian, they were controlling the blacks in the ANC.† (source)

His attitude was like that of many Afrikaners who simply believed that black tribes had been killing each other since time immemorial.† (source)

The policy was supported by the Dutch Reform Church, which furnished apartheid with its religious underpinnings by suggesting that Afrikaners were God's chosen people and that blacks were a subservient species.† (source)

But he thought he ought to know it, so he took lessons in it, and went to an Afrikaner farm.† (source)

You know he spoke Afrikaans like an Afrikaner?† (source)

Englishman or Afrikaner, they could move nothing from the places where he put them.† (source)

One can be born an Afrikaner, or an English-speaking South African, or a coloured man, or a Zulu.† (source)

Indeed Ixopo was full of Afrikaners now, whereas once there had been none of them.† (source)

— I just want to tell you that when father says Afrikaners he means Nationalists.† (source)

Half the Afrikaners in the country would be out of work.† (source)

He recognized it as the police-car from Ixopo, and it would probably be Binnendyk on his patrol, and a decent fellow for an Afrikaner.† (source)

But it would save a devil of a lot of money, if Afrikaners could only see that bilingualism was a devil of a waste of it.† (source)

I am lost when I balance this against that, I am lost when I ask if this is safe, I am lost when I ask if men, white men or black men, Englishmen or Afrikaners, Gentiles or Jews, will approve.† (source)

For all the police were Afrikaners, and the post-office clerks, and the men at the railway-station, and the village people got on well with them one way and the other.† (source)

One can hear, as I heard when I was a boy, that there are more Afrikaners than English-speaking people in South Africa, and yet know nothing, see nothing, of them at all.† (source)

The war had put things back a bit, for some of the Afrikaners had joined the army, and some were for the war but didn't join the army, and some were just for neutrality and if they had any feelings they concealed them, and some were for Germany but it wasn't wise for them to say anything about it.† (source)

Especially the Afrikaners.† (source)

And he went round the books again, past the case full of Abraham Lincoln, and the case full of South Africa, and the case full of Afrikaners, and the case full of religion and sociology and crime and criminals, and the case full of poetry and novels and Shakespeare.† (source)

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