How, then, does he see a possibility that South African whites will relinquish any part of the power that they have so tenaciously held?
These were codewords to indicate that South African whites could not leave themselves exposed to an exclusively one-person-one-vote system without some sort of veto power.
Years of privilege have given South African whites an easy authority.
Make it look like the South African whites were trying to upset the Olympics and kill American athletes.
The congress has been making an aggressive bid for respectability both among those governments and South African whites.
Many South African whites believe that the National Party can no longer protect them.
But, perhaps, my harshest memories are those of a conflict that few South African whites have seen at close hand.
The exchange was not the sort to attract South African whites of a more conservative stripe.
The great majority of South African whites have never been in a black township, much less inside a black home.
South African whites are very particular about their history, especially Afrikaners.