strict Verwoerdian apartheid,
polled 26 percent of the vote and won
twenty-three seats, displacing the Progressive Federal party, which won
only 14 percent of the vote and twenty seats, as the official parliamentary
opposition.V
The swing to the right in white politics continued in the
elections in white municipalities in October 1988, when the Conservative
party won control of most of the small towns in the Transvaal and nearly
got a majority in Preroria.O In the same period, unidentified persons
destroyed the headquarters
of four major antiapartheid organizations-
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