'The Afrikaner homeland my father fought for.'

Politically, supporters of an Afrikaner homeland, or volkstaat, are largely tolerated.

In fifth place with 3.3 percent was the Freedom Front, organized as a vehicle for whites devoted to a separate Afrikaner homeland.

Liberalism in South Africa is often about race; Mr. Luyt does not defend apartheid and mocks the idea of a volkstaat, a separate Afrikaner homeland.

But polls also show movement to the more right-wing parties, like the Freedom Front, which seeks an Afrikaner homeland.

And polls also show movement toward rightist Afrikaner parties like the Freedom Front, which is wants a separate Afrikaner homeland.

Afrikaners Seek Homeland South African separatists have united and will demand an Afrikaner homeland in the Transvaal.

The cause that unites them, the creation of an Afrikaner homeland within a loose South African confederation, has emotional appeal, but almost no prospect of being enacted.

Meanwhile, retired army generals helped launch an 'Afrikaner Volksfront' to demand a white Afrikaner homeland.

"We want to negotiate an Afrikaner homeland, and they can do what they want to" with the rest of the country, he said.