volkstaat, noun

Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, volk (Afrikaner) people + staat state.
Boerestaat. Also attributive, and transferred sense.
1987 L. Wroughton in Pretoria News 15 June 6Terre’Blanche demands ‘Volkstaat’ for his people.
1989 P. Dickson in Evening Post 7 Mar. 6When asked just how he intended to remove the country’s black population from his white volkstaat ideal, an angry Mr Terre’Blanche said he was ‘certainly not going to ask them’.
1991 A. Kenny in Frontline Dec. 13When I reproach AWB-supporters over the contradiction between the theory of an all-white Volkstaat where whites will do their own dirty work and the present reality of blacks doing all their dirty work for them, they are quite honest about it. ‘Yes, that’s a problem.’
1993 Business Day 19 July 4The real danger is that Buthelezi is intent on a Zulu volkstaat.
1994 F. Bridgland in Weekly Telegraph (U.K.) 23 Mar. (Plus) p.ivThe AWB..simply does not have the brain power, self-discipline or military skills to sustain the kind of prolonged uprising necessary to obtain a volkstaat by martial means.
Boerestaat. Also attributive, and transferred sense.
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