De Klerk built a prosperous law practice in the Transvaal industrial town of Vereeniging.

The Conservative Party leader, Andries P. Treurnicht, who voted in the northern Transvaal town of Nylstroom, said he was confident that the referendum would be rejected.

But it assumed rising significance as both parties rushed reinforcements to the western Transvaal town for a test of political strength.

The withholding of black spending in white towns has proved to be a devastating weapon in the struggle against inequality, as boycotts in other rural Transvaal towns have shown.

It opened in Delmas, a Transvaal town for which the case has been named, before being moved to the Supreme Court in Pretoria last January.

Middelburg, another Transvaal town, chose to shut down its public sites rather than see them integrated by the Government.

Such a case occurred two months ago, on Dec. 8, 1990, in the northern Transvaal town of Messina, where a farmer accused a youth named Makwathi of stealing a pistol.

'An Act of Love' Mrs. Ferreira-Jorge, a gym instructor in the picturesque northern Transvaal town of Tzaneen, has one son, Alcino.

Perhaps the most successful march took place in Secunda, a small Transvaal town controlled by the right-wing Conservative Party.

In all, 22 defendants were put on trial simultaneously in the Transvaal town of Delmas, but 3 were excused for lack of evidence and another 8 were later acquitted.