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  • For long periods, this section of our population has been subjected to the unimaginable terrors of 'die swart gevaar' and 'die rooi gevaar', the 'black' and 'red' dangers ...

    ANC Today 2007

  • South Africa was a fear-ridden society convinced that it was under terminal threat from "die swaart en rooi gevaar", the black and red Communist danger.

    Archive 2005-02-01 James 2005

  • "They are blaming Chinese imports - just as the National Party used to raise fears of the 'rooi gevaar' and the 'swart gevaar'," he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • South Africa was a fear-ridden society convinced that it was under terminal threat from "die swaart en rooi gevaar", the black and red Communist danger.

    Telegraph columnist: "House Arrest scarred me for life, Mr Clarke" James 2005

  • For long periods, this section of our population has been subjected to the unimaginable terrors of 'die swart gevaar' and 'die rooi gevaar', the 'black' and 'red' dangers ...

    ANC Today 2004

  • For long periods, this section of our population has been subjected to the unimaginable terrors of "die swart gevaar" and "die rooi gevaar", the "black" and "red" dangers.

    ANC Today 2004

  • For long periods, this section of our population has been subjected to the unimaginable terrors of "die swart gevaar" and "die rooi gevaar", the "black" and "red" dangers.

    ANC Today 2004

  • "The defeat of the NP is also a defeat of the 'rooi gevaar' and anti-ANC tactics used by the NP in the by-election," Rasool said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • As before, it has continued to frighten the national minorities against the ANC by threatening them with both a "swart gevaar" (black danger) and a "rooi gevaar" (red danger).

    REPORT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE ANC, NELSON MANDELA TO THE 50TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 1997

  • As before, it has continued to frighten the national minorities against the ANC by threatening them with both a "swart gevaar" (black danger) and a "rooi gevaar" (red danger).

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

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