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Karmic Sangoma
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Right-wing extremists who have nursed their grievances on the sidelines since the end of the apartheid era are poised to throw themselves into the mix of South Africa's multi-racial democracy.
Long convinced that Aids and abortion are all part of a plot against the white community, followers of the Boerestaat party are hoping the electorate will start listening to their siren calls once it has delivered an application to the electoral commission to be registered as a party on January 2.
The commission can withhold registration from any party that it regards as discriminatory.
That is a charge rejected by party leader Coen Vermaak, who nevertheless says it is time that white people open their eyes and reject wholesale the concept of the Rainbow Nation.
"We don't want to become the government of the day. We want to change the system," Vermaak told Agence France-Presse in a recent interview on the margins of a rally at Krugersdorp, near Johannesburg.
But for all his talk of revolution, the vision of Vermaak and the party is rooted in nostalgia for the period up until 1994.
His address to a group of 50 ageing supporters was made against a backdrop of white, orange and blue -- the colours of the Vierkleur national flag that was consigned to the dustbin of history when apartheid fell.
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Despite website links to United States-based anti-Semitic, white supremacist organisations, Vermaak said the party does not consider itself racist while conceding that it was possible their views might be perceived as such.
Oh please. These people are the same as Mugabe. All good religious volk.
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