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... we’ll read you very nice lines which characterize the very conflict we’re trying to analyse. // Is it a poem in Afrikaans? // Listen… // English for a change… // English for a change. // ‘The first to go are the niceties // the little minor conformities // that suddenly seem ...

... of white South Africa’s white identity: sports. // ‘How about rugby? Did you know that that great South African institution was invented by the English back in 1823 and where would Vrystaat be without it? // Sport is part of the way of life English speakers have given South Africa. But ...

... were wrapped in plastic, sealed in plastic, so I ripped open the plastic, I took out the magazines, both religious, one in Afrikaans, one in English. I put aside the Afrikaans one. My Afrikaans is not very good. And I opened the English magazine, and the act of opening the magazine was the ...

... him medically. And Asvat refused and said the boy should be sent to hospital. The fourth day I arrived in the morning and they were talking in English. ‘You must go into that back room and go take that dog and go dump it somewhere,’ I don’t know which somewhere ...

... going to work, we have been through this in the Anglo Boer War. Remember 25 000 of our women and children died. We never had this opportunity, the English just went on. The dilemma is that we must start closing this at some point and that must come from both ...

... and started her professional career as a journalist with The Times of Brazil. Mary Burton speaks Spanish, Portuguese and French but it was her English she used to meet her South African husband on a skiing trip in Europe in ...

... at its most powerful, was only a small part of the overall economy. The most powerful businesses and industries continued to be controlled by white English speaking businessmen. In general they denied that apartheid served them or they apartheid and pointed instead at the past Afrikaner ...

... you off the bat. // I remember you. I remember your smile, I remember your eyes. I remember your chuckle. You used to get me coming out of English class, you remember that? And I’ve never forgotten your name, I’ve never forgotten your name, never, ever // Was he not nice to you? // ...

What I can comment on is our own industry, whether we as a predominantly Afrikaans speaking organisation had advantages relative to our English speaking competitors and I believe no. I believe that we as white organisations had an advantage relative to disadvantaged organisations within the ...

... activities as this school and it’s great to learn a new language. I like my teachers. // This is my teacher, Mrs. Crawford, she’s my favourite English teacher and I like her, that’s all. // I wouldn’t call him average. You’re a hard worker and I know you’re going to get ...

Perhaps the most high profile and dramatic amnesty hearing was that of the killers of Chris Hani. From their cells in Pretoria Central prison the English speaking Afrikaner and the Polish immigrant came to face four weeks of gruelling cross examination.

Clive Derby-Lewis calls himself an English speaking Afrikaner. He says he bought the gun for the killing and gave the address. Today he is simply a murderer imprisoned for his crime, but once he moved in high political circles holding court in public and in the media. // Stop interrupting now Mr. ...

we to understand Mr. Derby-Lewis that your wife, a particularly active political person, who had a column of her own in the ‘Patriot’ written in English up to a certain stage, who wrote speeches for the leaders of the Conservative Party and who was politically active, that you conspired with ...

... sins. Khaya could be used by God as a great man in South Africa. He can be used by God to bring ‘versoening’ [reconciliation], what’s that in English? To bring peace and love amongst people. // You are a very forgiving man. After the attack, when did you become forgiving towards the people ...

I want to charge all the mainstream newspapers, every single one of them, English language and Afrikaans language, with collusion with apartheid. I also want to charge them Mr. Chairman with having a hand directly or indirectly in the murder of thousands of black people by the apartheid army and ...

... back them up with finance. And the Security forces have bugged their telephone and they intercepted that message and one of the security forces, an English speaking guy, after some few days, he phoned them back … he phoned the Pebco Three … and he pretended to be Mr. Charlson. And he told ...