Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view of the assassination of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, it is remarkable that TIME, in the cover story on South Africa [Aug. 26], could have "pre-scooped" all other news media with such an interesting and educational article relating to "The Great White Laager...
...matter of curiosity, was your Verwoerd cover story allowed to circulate in South Africa...
Several Assemblymen grabbed Tsafendas and wrestled him to the floor. Others, including three doctors, rushed to try to revive Verwoerd. But it was to no avail. Dr. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, architect of apartheid and South Africa's Prime Minister for eight years, was dead-just two days short of his 65th birthday...
This was an attitude that any white leader of South Africa would have to come to terms with. To Verwoerd, the mixture of baasskap and benevolence came naturally. And evil as it was, it seemed to be a formula that could at least prevent an explosion of racial violence. The question was whether his successor could or would be able to govern in the same fashion...
...force plane to talk business. Lesotho will be entirely surrounded by South African territory and is heavily dependent on Verwoerd's economy since thousands of Basuto regularly flock to South African gold mines for jobs. But Chief Jonathan has something to offer in return: water for South Africa's parched farmlands, and some spit and polish for the image Verwoerd would like to project to the world as a man reasonable to his black neighbors if not his black countrymen. The talk was friendly enough, but except to be photographed, Verwoerd refused to appear in public with Chief...