given by the apartheid regime and banned the ANC from campaigning
there. But the overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of the territory,
including most of the civil servants and many members of the security
forces, resented Mangope's autocratic leadership and wished to be part of
the new South Africa. When they rose in rebellion, Mangope appealed to
the Volksfront for help, and Viljoen mobilized a private army of four
thousand men, telling the AWB leaders that he did not want them to par-
ticipate. On March
II,
however, a ragtag group of AWB men drove their
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