The game is not an incidental part of Afrikaner culture, like cricket is to the English.
But with his greatest achievement behind him, the 61-year-old Afrikaner has been powerless to halt his own party's decline.
But because of the commission's reluctance to make an Afrikaner martyr of him, nobody expects him to suffer serious punishment.
The comments have been condemned by Afrikaner groups, who want her fired.
South African Women's Minister Lulu Xingwana has apologised for saying that Afrikaner men were raised to believe that women and children were their property.
Last year, when he sought to relaunch the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (better known by its Afrikaans initials, AWB), only a few hundred people turned up.
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The migration of millions of black South Africans, begun by the British a half century before, had been accelerated by the land seizures of the Afrikaner government.
South Africa possibly satisfied him most: the Afrikaner cabinet and ANC officials, trained separately by him in negotiation workshops, agreeing to end apartheid without resorting to violence.
For locals the most popular order is vetkoek (pronounced fet-cook and literally meaning 'fat cake'): an Afrikaner pastry that's a bit like a savoury doughnut, filled with mince.
An Afrikaner poet attends South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
One is a modernising Afrikaner, who led the Nats' negotiations to end apartheid and was a bold would-be reformer of a party still set in its Afrikaans-speaking ways.
Even the recently formed United Democratic Movement, an effort by an Afrikaner, Roelf Meyer, and an African, Bantu Holomisa, to gather multi-racial support, is favoured by just 4% of voters.
An attractive and popular preacher, he soon became a moderator in the church and, at 25, the youngest-ever member of the Broederbond, the secret Afrikaner society his father had helped form.
It was an 83.5-carat diamond and it gave birth to one of the world's most powerful multinationals, De Beers, named for Afrikaner brothers who owned a farm on top of a diamond pipe.
For example, Athol Fugard, the internationally acclaimed Afrikaner playwright who wrote the Oscar-winning film Tsotsi and The Road to Mecca, a play about the local artist Helen Martins, found his muse in this scenic corner of the Karoo.
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