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- <text id=92TT0279>
- <title>
- Feb. 10, 1992: World Notes:South Africa
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Feb. 10, 1992 Japan
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 41
- World Notes
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Leaning on the White Right
- </hdr><body>
- <p> For decades, most of the South Africans arrested for
- political protest have been black. But now that the government
- has entered formal negotiations for a new constitution with black
- political parties, including the African National Congress,
- President F.W. de Klerk is signaling a more evenhanded approach.
- </p>
- <p> Last week police arrested Eugene Terre Blanche, head of
- the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, and nine of his
- most senior lieutenants, and charged them with public violence.
- The government's action followed a lengthy investigation of a
- violent clash between Terre Blanche's pro-apartheid brownshirts
- and police last August in which three people were killed
- outside a meeting hall where De Klerk was speaking.
- </p>
- <p> Terre Blanche, a former policeman, complained that his
- 10-year-old daughter had to watch him being arrested. Another
- of the right-wing movement's leaders, Piet Rudolph, seemed
- unaware of the irony when he said, "This is what one should
- expect in a police state."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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