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Afrikaner

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Afrikaner
Afrikaans name for Bos indicus cattle. Called also Africander.


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Furthermore, the film manages to find empathy, if not sympathy, for one of the bad white characters, the Afrikaner interrogator who oversees Chamusso's torture.
But apartheid took an especially pernicious form in 1950 when the ruling Afrikaners, descendants of the original Dutch settlers, began passing laws forcing blacks and coloureds (people of mixed race) to live and work in restricted areas, and barred them from owning land outside those areas.
In The White Lioness, the shooting of an Ystad realestate agent leads Wallander to a former KGB officer relocated to Sweden, who once trained black South Africans recruited by the Afrikaner Resistance Movement to assassinate Nelson Mandela.
 
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