How did the white minority in South Africa see their situation in the apartheid times?
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Am quite happy to oblige. I grew up in South Africa, with Afrikaans my second language. Went to an Afrikaans school till the age of ten. Spent the early seventies in the Anti-Apartheid activist group around Richard Turner in Durban - have been trying to write a book about that period for years. (He was murdered in 1978 - he's usually mentioned in the same breath as Biko.) I knew quite a lot of the people involved, including those close to Mandela. Have been following the politics there obsessively ever since. The mass media (I still have a clipping file from those years) is indeed an important point of departure for these things. Think: "International communism is going to bury us all." "Adapt or die" (P.W. Botha, in a [in]famous speech somewhere seventies/eighties.) Think: what happens if you export McCarthyism to Africa?
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