white supremacy. The Volksfront was formidable because its members
were accustomed to military discipline, owned modern firearms, and per-
meated the,senior ranks of the army, the police, and the bureaucracy. In
October 1993, moreover, the Volksfront joined in an unlikely alliance
with the IFP and the governments of the Ciskei and Bophuthatswana.
They demanded that South Africa should be a loose confederation of sov-
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