The Afrikaners demand 'whites only' land

Outside the magistrates court in Ventersdorp, a one-horse town in rural north South Africa, stood a small stand decked out in the blue, white and orange colours of the country's apartheid-era flag

It is here two black men were accused of murdering Eugene Terre'Blanche, the leader of South Africa's far-right Afrikaner Resistance Movement,.

The people manning it, from another Afrikaner outfit with similar views to Terre'Blanche's, were collecting registration forms for an all-white election next year. Once an assembly has been chosen, it will ask the country's government to give them a separate homeland for the volk, descendants of the mainly Dutch pioneers who trekked north from the British-run Cape Colony in the early 19th century.

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