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Word: africa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leader and Verwoerd the brain and propagandist, the two men slowly rebuilt the Nationalist Party in their own image. In 1948, the Nationalists surged back into power, and Verwoerd became Minister of Native Affairs. It was just the place for him, and he used it to transform South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Great White Laager | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

Thanks mostly to the pass laws, South Africa has one of the highest prison populations in the world: one out of every 236 South Africans is behind bars. Every day more than 1,000 Africans are herded through the Bantu Affairs Courts, where it usually takes less than a minute to be tried, found guilty and sentenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Great White Laager | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...Apartheid (pronounced apart-ate) is an Afrikaans word meaning separation. It is a political dogma based on the fear-not entirely unjustified-that South Africa's 12 million blacks will overwhelm its 3.4 million whites, and it is enforced only through massive and brutal police powers. But to Verwoerd, it is not simply a tool to keep the black man in his place. He sees it as a creative policy intended to allow the Bantu to develop as a true African instead of becoming an imitation white man. "Separation does not envision oppression," he proclaims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Great White Laager | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

Keystone of the whole structure is partition of South Africa into white and black states. In Verwoerd's grand scheme, the African tribal reserves will be turned into eight separate "Bantustans," which will eventually be granted full independence as nations. "In the homelands the Bantu is No. 1 and the white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Great White Laager | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...reserves are nothing more than a patchwork of 260 vaguely associated tribal areas, most of them tiny and widely separated from each other. They are backward and primitive, with few natural resources, and far from the centers of industry. And together they contain less than 14% of South Africa's total land. The remaining 86% is for white occupation only, and the millions of Africans now living there are officially classified as "temporary sojourners"-even though many of them are third-generation city dwellers who have never set eyes on their "homelands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Great White Laager | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

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