At a rally of far-right Afrikaners, Goldblatt kept his lens trained on Constand Viljoen in the front row. Viljoen clutched the hand of his wife, Ristie, grim-faced, as she wept while Terre'blanche raged. It was the moment of truth about the dissolution of the right-wing backlash.
About three months before the first democratic election, I went with David Goldblatt to a rally of far-right Afrikaners who hoped to organise resistance - armed if necessary - to the forthcoming democracy.
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