European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 01, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A time of reckoning for Whites ii South Africa the signs Are there a line of ants Long dormant penetrating suddenly and mysteriously fro Garden to sunlit Kitchen the smudge of Pink Cherr Blossom on  that had seemed Barren swimming pools turning quickly Green in the heat. In Johannesburg s wealthy White suburbs the omens say that Spring is stirring an intimation of the coming hot Days and rain and a time this year of nervous talk and quandaries Lor Whites haunted by the Specter if Black township violence and political uncertainty. The old Way of the Whites in South Africa government ministers keep saying Are going. Yet they Are far from gone and in a racially divided land will provide their own separations for decades. There is talk among some who have the passports and the Money of emigration of seeking new lives in Australia or Canada or the United states while those without that option Ponder in moods that Range from harsh racial Defiance to puzzlement where their government will Lead them. There is also talk of change of co responsibility with Blacks but no visible change is evident the buses that ply the Leafy avenues from White Northern suburbs to City Center Are still segregated by Law a Black face in a City Center restaurant still attracts furtive curiosity from White diners. The future thus still seems Distant and the theology of limited change nebulous while the opulent Way of life of Many is Here and now. Page 14 the stars and stripes but the portents read in a time of the nation s to Tacia unrest have brought their own doubts and Fea questions posed in the hiatus Between government statement and official inaction. The Man it an Alrika Aner relatively Liberal who likes to chock foreigners by calling Blacks "niggers,1 smiling at this affront to their liberalism. The Drogal terminology moreover seems designed to defy his anguish Over the future. It s nothing  he said in a conversation. Wh6 talk turned to the White reaction to Black dissent. We be been sending our Money abroad for years. Course it s illegal and if we re caught we be had  that he said is Why he does not wish to be Iden Tofle everybody wants a Bolt Hole if they can afford it he said. But the notion of departure is hedged with constraints and memories. Think of the afrikaners. In the old Days sitting around the fire he said. Somewhere out there beyond the Light we know they Are there the Black then we will see Vliem the eyes outside the firelight the eyes. Then Well All have our code names to communicate to defend ourselves. Well be inside to  a Laager is a Camp surrounded by a barricade of wagons. So Why Send Money abroad if the defense lies at Home in the Laager because they la always be in eyes just out of the  sunday