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Title:Reforms in South Africa: Right-Wing Reaction
Author:Saxena, S.C.ISNI
Year:1991
Periodical:Ind-Africana: Collected Research Papers on Africa
Volume:4
Issue:2
Period:October
Pages:36-51
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:fascist parties
Conservative Party
constitutional reform
Ethnic and Race Relations
Politics and Government
Abstract:Since the 1980s, a number of ultra-right political parties and groups have come into existence in South Africa. All of them are strongly opposed to any dilution of apartheid and any system of government in which whites do not enjoy the monopoly of power. The author looks in particular at the Conservative Party (CP), led by Andries Treurnicht, and its rejection of reforms, its call for fresh all-white elections (despite its electoral defeat in 1987 and 1989), the threat of armed struggle, its 'no' to negotiations, and its proposal for partition and the setting up of an exclusively white 'homeland'. He also briefly discusses the ideas of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), led by Eugene TerreBlanche, and several other militant, far right-wing groups. Ref.