The World - News from Feb. 7, 1989

The South Africa government cracked down for the first time on the country’s most powerful white extremist group, banning displays of firearms at meetings of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement. Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok imposed the ban on the neo-Nazi group under the same emergency regulations used to restrict many anti-apartheid movements. Vlok said that meetings of the resistance movement have been “characterized by emotion-laden speeches . . . in which remarks about the use of violence were uttered.” The movement, founded in 1973, regularly draws thousands of whites to its rallies.