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  • It was vintage Mandela with a new urgency, delivered in a town where a worn, broken sign still proclaims "volkstaat" - the

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The Front's final participation in the polls depended on an accord with the African National Congress which involved that the recommendations of the so-called volkstaat council, provided for in constitutional principle 34, would be guaranteed, Dr Mulder said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • But, "I want to make it clear in no uncertain terms: the issue of a volkstaat is a non-starter".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • No liberation movement worth its name can ever agree to the establishment of the so called volkstaat where other racial groups shall not enjoy universal rights.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The NP said the threat of violence to retain the status of a volkstaat was a weak declaration of war.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • The Conservative Party's claim that the Orange Free State was now part of a volkstaat was a silly, unbecoming and unfounded claim, leader of the Free State National Party and Minister of Justice

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • It was clear that there was general sympathy among CP supporters for a so-called volkstaat and that this support would grow and place further pressure on the CP caucus.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • This would guarantee the Afrikaners their own 'volkstaat' that would last for all time.

    ANC Today 2006

  • We cannot negotiate for a 'volkstaat' (nation state) while we have Afrikaners living in Pretoria, Cape Town, Nelspruit, and all over the country.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Residents view their town as the starting point for a "volkstaat"

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

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